Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:15:48 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipx: remove the BKL | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:13:11 +0100
> This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the > IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this > is safe to do, because there is no global state > that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does > not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely > while holding it. > > Compile-tested only. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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