Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755586AbZJKQNv (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:13:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754841AbZJKQNt (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:13:49 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56868 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754477AbZJKQNs (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:13:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:03 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: John Kacur , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Vincent Sanders , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [PATCH] drivers/scsi/ch.c: Remove BKL in ch_open Message-ID: <20091011171403.13a018f0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091011090313.1b8f0eb1@infradead.org> References: <20091011153709.4438cf9c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091011082917.6ebbd810@infradead.org> <20091011165408.51d4f413@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091011090313.1b8f0eb1@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 557 Lines: 23 > > But module load/unload does > > it does? > > looking at the code.... so far failing to find where. Interesting - it used to and there is code that still relies on that. The more general problem of register_chrdev open do something error unload whoops definitely needs looking at however. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/