Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:48:33PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:07:34PM +0100, 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
> >...
> >  fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > 
> > which I'll send out fixes for soon.
> >...
> 
> These two can't be built modular.

s390 and sparc64 allows a modular BINFMT_ELF32, which #includes
fs/binfmt_elf.c after redefining various things.  But I suspect the
right fix for this is to disallow building it modular..

For arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c you're right.  Other mca files can be built
modular and need odd symbols aswell, but mca.c is always built in.

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