From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757187AbYEZO5r (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:57:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755943AbYEZO5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:57:38 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:38727 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754126AbYEZO5h (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 10:57:37 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] usblcd: Push down BKL into driver Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:57:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080522220751.599d73ee@core> In-Reply-To: <20080522220751.599d73ee@core> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805261657.41398.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag 22 Mai 2008 23:07:51 schrieb Alan Cox: > I'm pretty sure this can be eliminated however I couldn't prove (or find) > what stopped the device vanishing mid IOCTL_GET_HARD_VERSION. Perhaps a > USB wizard could double check that and see if the lock_kernel can go > entirely. Nothing does. The driver is buggy as it is now irrespective of BKL. Thanks for noticing. Regards Oliver