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[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:33 +0000 (03:18 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:33:29 +0000 (07:33 -0800)
commitde62a97ef576a1f6b5013139ded9893226375bbb
tree39589587c7c48b4d2e3f1dc6a1c8ddb863ce814ctree | snapshot
parent554b7c801e379e8c0072533b4da89a3a003cbfaccommit | diff
[PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export

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.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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