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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmtimer: Push BKL down into the ioctl handler
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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>>>>> "Alan" = Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

Alan> Switches to unlocked_ioctl read to remove ioctl BKL method. Fix
Alan> the unknown ioctl return. Probably a nice easy one to kill off
Alan> BKL usage entirely later

Alan> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Looks good to me, I should check whether we can't just kill the
lock_kernel() here - I suspect it shouldn't be an issue.

Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>

Cheers,
Jes