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Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:25:09 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow raw_notifier callouts to unregister themselves
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Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Since raw_notifier chains don't benefit from any centralized locking
> protections, they shouldn't suffer from the associated limitations.  
> Under some circumstances it might make sense for a raw_notifier callout
> routine to unregister itself from the notifier chain.  This patch (as678)
> changes the notifier core to allow for such things.

ok...  Can you see any reason why 2.6.17 needs this?