Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:06:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] uio BKL removal |
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:15:32PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > I had a moment to dedicate to the BKL removal cause, so I went for the > UIO driver, which seemed simple. The main thing I found was that there > was locking around some idr accesses, but not all, so I filled that > in. With that in place, removing the BKL from uio_open() seems safe, > especially since none of the in-tree UIO drivers have open() or > release() methods. > > (Incidentally, I don't see how uio_pdrv.c could ever work - who initializes > uioinfo?) > > If there's no complaints, I'll feed this into linux-next via the > bkl-removal tree.
Looks good to me, feel free to add an: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> to it.
greg k-h
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