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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions 
In-Reply-To: Message from Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> 
   of "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:11:50 BST." <200111221211.fAMCBoc15728@ns.caldera.de> 
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:30:06 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> said:
> In article <01112211121601.00690@argo> you wrote:
> > At least some of the removals in the input tree are probably wrong. You
> > are introducing a race with deregistering of input devices.

> Nope, it's fine to remove it.  Input is racy all over the place and the list
> are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways.

"It is broken anyway, breaking it some more makes no difference"!?
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