Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this
> lock.  The only possibly modular users left are:
>
>  arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
>  drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
>  fs/binfmt_elf.c
>
> which I'll send out fixes for soon.
>

Hmm, I have some debug modules that do use that lock.  Is it possible to
export it only if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL?  If this isn't proper either, it's
no big deal. I'll just make a patch that exports it, and add it to my
kernel before debugging.  I'm just asking to make my life more convenient
:-)

-- Steve

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/