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Alan Cox wrote: >> Most of the legacy users are unlikely to be latency problems, >> simply because only very few people (or nobody) still has that hardware >> and the code will never run. >> >> Also I wouldn't lose sleep over e.g. let ISDN continue using BKL forever. > > Most Most? >of the legacy users inflict that locking on other code - eg the ISN > use of the BKL directly impacts on the tty layer work. So you just stick unlock_kernel()/lock_kernel() around the call to TTY (or similar to the entry points) -Andi -- 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/ | |||||||||
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