Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751247AbZJKTsl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751148AbZJKTsj (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:39 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com ([209.85.220.227]:40338 "EHLO mail-fx0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049AbZJKTsi (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nTDjTAak495EvQTKg4rnLP+yok0HdTOncKQ81Ld0tVuvvE9rtlTZjK247XX5rySX0l DT0KRwHkrBSN8CEH6+wcsAeNSXtvCQxlV/BT2DLHUt6tx8M1gUcLFaFG/+tB7395NhFB y9bLEMsHcIEva1p9DjNHWx9Y06NTUkjAtg15E= From: Arnd Bergmann To: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 20/28] input: Remove BKL from hp_sdc_rtc Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:47:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-11-generic; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Vincent Sanders , John Kacur , Jonathan Corbet , Christoph Hellwig , Geert Uytterhoeven , Dmitry Torokhov References: <20091010153314.827301943@linutronix.de> <20091010153349.884891604@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <20091010153349.884891604@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910112147.55546.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 597 Lines: 14 On Saturday 10 October 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > cycle_kernel_lock() was added during the big BKL pushdown. It should > ensure the serializiation against driver init code. In this case there > is nothing to serialize. Remove it. The driver still holds the BKL in its ioctl method, which should be removed as well if the above is true. Arnd <>< -- 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/