Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:18:41 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 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! :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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