Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:30:54 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: devfs: BKL *not* taken while opening devices |
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Russell King wrote: > Kernel 2.5.8... Devfs devfs_open() bypasses the normal chrdev_open > and blkdev_open functions, and misses out taking the BKL. 2.5.10 is > the same. > > Certainly the tty layer (and probably many of the other devices as > well) require the BKL to be taken before calling the open method.
Has the time come to push the BKL down into all of the driver open()s? It's going to be a lot of work, but it has to happen eventually, right?
-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com
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