Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757483Ab1CAXPQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:15:16 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59546 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757148Ab1CAXPL (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:15:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20110301.151548.116374357.davem@davemloft.net> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipx: remove the BKL From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1299021191-17961-8-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> References: <1299021191-17961-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1299021191-17961-8-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 20 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:13:11 +0100 > This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the > IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this > is safe to do, because there is no global state > that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does > not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely > while holding it. > > Compile-tested only. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: David S. Miller -- 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/