Hi Jan,
I like and support your idea!
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Jan Beulich wrote:
> With more and more sub-systems/sub-components leaving their footprint
> in task handling functions, it seems reasonable to add notifiers that
> these components can use instead of having them all patch themselves
> directly into core files.
Yes, but why export variables? Wouldn't it be better to export
an API?
That simplifies the callers (they all pass "current" as task
and "task_notifier_list" as arguments).
It also prevents exposing internal variables (notifier lists
ARE internal variables) to modules.
What do you think?
Best Regards
Ingo Oeser
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