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SubjectRe: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The hardest and optimal scenario is to look inside all drivers, fix the locks
> (and pray for a further patch to not break them). I'm afraid that this is a long
> term strategy.

Ultimately that is where you end up.

> For example, a very simple scenario would simply replace BKL by one mutex.
> This way, just one ioctl could be handled at the same time. This is something

video2_ioctl_serialized() ?


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