On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:44:18PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: > PS. Its beyond the scope of this thread, and probably beyond the kenn > of this mailing list (the newbies at least0, but what about a > intermodule-shared-lock service module, to fill the gap between a > one-off shared-lock module like the above, and a full-blown > cluster-ready Distributed lock manager Ok, now you've just gone too far :) No, that's not needed, and neither is your "put a lock in a module" stuff. Just put the lock in the module you need it in, and make the other module depend on it. It's ok to load more than one module (as you are going to do anyway.) In short, don't try to make it so hard... thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
