From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, hjk@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] uio BKL removal
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827000640.GC29570@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826171532.2414c7a2@bike.lwn.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 23:15 [PATCH, RFC] uio BKL removal Jonathan Corbet
2008-08-27 0:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-08-27 8:08 ` Hans J. Koch
2008-08-27 20:45 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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