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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:25:17 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Subject: Re: Elimination of klists
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James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, the concept of a klist is quite nice, and the beauty is that
>  all the locking is internal to them, so users can't actually get it
>  wrong (I like interfaces like this).

You're a bit screwed if you want to use them from interrupts..