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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:13:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/18] compat: backport ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE()
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 04:35 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
>>
>> For older kernels this is simply a matter of using
>> LIST_HEAD.
>
> Hmm, how is that useful if it will not have any effect?

The core of the handling is done in the internal asynch code and
that's kept hidden from the users of this -- so far.

  Luis