Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions

Horst von Brand
2001-11-22T12:31:21Z

Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> said:
> In article <01112211121601.00690@argo> you wrote:
> > At least some of the removals in the input tree are probably wrong. You
> > are introducing a race with deregistering of input devices.

> Nope, it's fine to remove it. Input is racy all over the place and the list
> are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways.

"It is broken anyway, breaking it some more makes no difference"!?
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