From de62a97ef576a1f6b5013139ded9893226375bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:18:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 803a9edb7cd7..21272e4b4a5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -185,6 +185,17 @@ Who: Jean Delvare --------------------------- +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 + +--------------------------- + What: mount/umount uevents When: February 2007 Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know -- 2.20.1