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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: general@lists.openfabrics.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open()
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:15:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaprpyfoi0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080630165543.1ccd8858@bike.lwn.net> (Jonathan Corbet's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:43 -0600")

 > That's the general idea: audit the code where the BKL appears and
 > remove it when it's safe to do so.  It's always an appropriate time;
 > the only question is whether you think this change is good to go into
 > the tree for 2.6.27, or whether it should hang out in linux-next for
 > one more cycle.  I would assume that the extra time would not be
 > necessary.

Yes, this change should be good to go for 2.6.27.

Thanks,
  Roland

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27 15:54 The state of the BKL-removal tree Jonathan Corbet
2008-06-27 15:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-06-27 21:43 ` [PATCH] IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open() Roland Dreier
2008-06-30 22:55   ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-07-01  0:15     ` Roland Dreier [this message]

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