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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:05:17 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:30:06AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > 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"!?

Wether you lock access to shared data at one or zero points doesn't matter,
so it's not breaking it more.

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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