From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: remove BKL from uinput open function
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:32:09 +0100
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Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
       Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
       linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> OK, so how about the patch below? If it is accepted I will just switch
> to
> 
>         nonseekable_open(inode, file);
>         return 0;
> 
> style. I gonna add Al and akpm to CC to see if the patch will stick...

Sounds reasonable, if only to prevent this from becoming a FAQ.

> VFS: clarify that nonseekable_open() will never fail
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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