From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: oliver@neukum.org (Oliver Neukum)
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>,
"David C. Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:11:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111221211.fAMCBoc15728@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01112211121601.00690@argo>
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.
Christoph
--
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-21 23:32 [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions David C. Hansen
2001-11-22 10:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-22 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-11-22 12:30 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-22 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 9:44 ` Rick Lindsley
2001-11-23 10:10 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-11-23 10:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 11:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-26 17:46 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-26 19:41 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-26 19:53 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-23 12:08 ` Rick Lindsley
[not found] <adilger@turbolabs.com>
2001-11-06 20:04 ` [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup Tim Schmielau
2001-11-06 21:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 21:37 ` Philip Blundell
2001-11-07 0:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 23:58 ` Tim Hockin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-20 20:07 XFS to main kernel source Gonyou, Austin
2001-09-20 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:16 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-20 21:31 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 3:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-21 3:25 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 4:42 ` Nathan Scott
2001-09-21 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-21 8:40 ` Narancs v1
2001-09-21 14:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 14:45 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 18:03 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-20 20:50 ` Alan Cox
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