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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:18:58 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
       Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
       FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
       "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
       John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/st: remove BKL from open
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References: <1271277384-7627-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <201004151629.45029.arnd@arndb.de> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1004152244160.5127@kai.makisara.local> <201004152251.39636.arnd@arndb.de>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The st_open function is serialized through the st_dev_arr_lock
> and the STp->in_use flag, so there is no race that the BKL
> can protect against in the driver itself, and the function
> does not access any global state outside of the driver that
> might be protected with the BKL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---


Kai, can we get your ack on this?

Thanks.

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