Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752774Ab0DZMGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:06:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41527 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093Ab0DZMGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:06:53 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: SUSE To: Alessio Igor Bogani Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from open Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:06:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.34-rc3-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , Thomas Winischhofer , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Pete Zaitcev , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1272191830-23675-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it> In-Reply-To: <1272191830-23675-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004261406.50107.oneukum@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 473 Lines: 13 Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 12:37:10 schrieb Alessio Igor Bogani: > BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already provided > by mutex sisusb->lock. Have you checked the fb layer doesn't need it? Regards Oliver -- 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/