Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update

[David S. Miller]

From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:09:10 -0500 (EST)

> Do you have a better proposal for a way to prevent blocking notifier 
> chains from being modified while in use?  Or would you prefer to rewrite 
> all the callout routines that currently block, so that all the notifier 
> chains can be made atomic and we don't need the blocking notifier API?

I think if the user needs special locking, they should implement
it.

If you need to block, take a mutex around the notifier calls.
(I nearly typed semaphore there, sorry Ingo! :-)
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