Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

[Olaf Titz]

In article <20060215130734.GA5590@xxxxxx> you write:
> Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this
> lock.  The only possibly modular users left are:

CIPE is a driver which consists of a kernel module and a userspace
program, where each one of possibly many kernel devices is associated
with exactly one userspace process, and it uses the task list to keep
track of these associations. Is there a recommended other way to
handle such a situation?

Olaf

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