| From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [patch 05/28] drivers: Remove BKL from drivers/char/misc.c | Date | Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:24:00 +0200 |
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On Saturday 10 October 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > misc_open() is already serialized with misc_mtx. Remove the BKL > locking which got there via the BKL pushdown.
This only works as long as all misc drivers also don't need the BKL in /their/ open methods. I believe that we did a pushdown into them last year, but new ones may have crept up.
I guess we really should have kill this one off back then, but somehow it was forgotten about.
Arnd <><
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