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Subject[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>

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-02-15 14:03:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-02-15 14:05:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -182,3 +182,14 @@
implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
prevents bugs and code duplication
Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklist_lock)
+When: August 2006
+Files: kernel/fork.c
+Why: tasklist_lock protects the kernel internal task list. Modules have
+ no business looking at it, and all instances in drivers have been due
+ to use of too-lowlevel APIs. Having this symbol exported prevents
+ moving to more scalable locking schemes for the task list.
+Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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