Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934786AbZJNPzp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934739AbZJNPzn (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:43 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com ([209.85.220.227]:37669 "EHLO mail-fx0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934737AbZJNPzm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:55:42 -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=P2hc61JZuOJObe933kqDmKwuu/Zcp1jDmWRxYA8F68GPJv0U6eiVDzqh/ktpM4XZSa 37M6c9v8kIMvNDJekwjaEs76nkDDsMONxj59GDDCZHijFo3R/j17DKYNAx2xUG+orl/z JAHF/H6ZmTYTFlDVNiEORXd6D5HqgnIRvuCbU= From: Arnd Bergmann To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [tip:bkl/drivers] drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:55:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31-11-generic; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org References: <20091010153349.237173041@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910141755.00774.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 22 On Wednesday 14 October 2009, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Commit-ID: 40b798efe3460797a4ac928ee2e038774e2758eb > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/40b798efe3460797a4ac928ee2e038774e2758eb > Author: Thomas Gleixner > AuthorDate: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:35:43 +0000 > Committer: Thomas Gleixner > CommitDate: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:32 +0200 > > drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open > > misc_open() is already serialized with misc_mtx. Remove the BKL > locking which got there via the BKL pushdown. Did you check the misc drivers to make sure this is not silently removing the BKL from drivers that need it? 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/