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Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2

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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, Alexander Viro <viro@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 - 1:46 pm

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
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I have yet to look at these drivers in detail whether they need BKL or 
not.  They likely don't.


drivers/firewire/fw-cdev.c::fw_device_op_open() does not need the BKL.
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[PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Jonathan Corbet, (Sun May 18, 6:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 1:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 3:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 4:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Ingo Molnar, (Mon May 19, 9:17 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stephen Rothwell, (Mon May 19, 12:03 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 9:46 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 12:00 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 9:37 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 4:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 6:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Alan Cox, (Tue May 20, 4:26 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 6:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Jeff Dike, (Mon May 19, 10:10 pm)