Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:54:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
       Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
       Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 20/28] input: Remove BKL from hp_sdc_rtc
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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.

On my list already :)
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