Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:05:17 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions |
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:30:06AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > > Nope, it's fine to remove it. Input is racy all over the place and the list > > are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways. > > "It is broken anyway, breaking it some more makes no difference"!?
Wether you lock access to shared data at one or zero points doesn't matter, so it's not breaking it more.
Christoph
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