In message <20030325011525.GA92370@compsoc.man.ac.uk> you write:
> > Otherwise there's no way to sanely use them without wrapping in #ifdef
>
> Well, "if (err && err != -ENOSYS)". The relative sanity of that is
> debatable. I don't care either way, hence the coin toss.
OK, well, I have an opinion and it's the other one. 8)
> > Hmm, yes, you need to use your own protection around
> > notifier_chain_register and notifier_call_chain. Wierd, because
> > notifier.c does its own locking for register and unregister, but not
> > for calling, which AFAICT makes it useless...
>
> I mentioned about this some time ago on lkml to massive indifference.
Yeah, it's a PITA.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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