Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 2010 08:30:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] BKL conversion in tty layer |
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:41:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2010 22:59:46 +0200 > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > This is the third attempt to get the BKL out of the > > TTY code. This version goes much further than the > > previous one, and eliminates most of the code I > > had introduced there. > > At this point I think the only way to make further progress is to > actually push this stuff into the kernel on top of the BKL removal > patches for the drivers and see what happens. Something will no doubt > break but we can try and nail them in time or if not revert the series > and try again next kernel. > > The big nasty remaining after this is drivers/serial, which probably > wants some serious reconstructive surgery to use kfifo etc. Either way > its an independent problem to the stuff this lot tackles. > > So this series > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
I'd prefer to do this for .36, not for .35. Arnd, I'll be glad to queue these patches up to the tty development tree after .35-rc1 is out, so it gets lots of testing in the linux-next tree, is that ok? If so, can you resend them to me at that time?
thanks,
greg k-h
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