Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock export | From | Olaf Titz <> | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:50:30 +0100 |
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In article <20060215130734.GA5590@lst.de> 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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