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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:32:26 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c
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On Wed, Dec 27 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Subject: [patch] block: remove BKL dependency from drivers/block/loop.c
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> the block loopback device is protected by lo->lo_ctl_mutex and it does 
> not need to hold the BKL anywhere. Convert its ioctl to unlocked_ioctl 
> and remove the BKL acquire/release from its compat_ioctl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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Jens Axboe