Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:30:34 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from open | From | Alessio Igor Bogani <> |
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Dear Mr. Bergmann,
2010/4/26 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>: >> >> BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already provided >> >> by mutex sisusb->lock. [...] > What about the BKL in the sisusb_ioctl()? It seems to follow the > same logic, so I would think that you can simply remove the BKL > from the module entirely, rather than only half of it.
It is what effectively I'm trying to do!
The first part of this work is already present in USB subsystem maintainer tree (aka greg) at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/usb/usb-sisusbvga-remove-the-bkl-from-ioctl.patch
Ciao, Alessio
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