Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2008 20:58:23 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill empty chardev open/release methods |
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> As it turns out, a misc driver will still be OK because the BKL has not > (yet) been pushed past misc_open(). What this does mean, though, is > that all of those empty and trivial open functions need to be > revisited. I thought this looked too easy the first time through...
I think it would be best to make them lock/unlock kernel in the first pass and then work through them. The BKL can be subtle and evil, but as I brought it into the world I guess I must banish it ;)
Alan
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