From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756255Ab0GINh7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:37:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:40723 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755851Ab0GINh6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:37:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=t/IUP8OtzWhnIVYarnwvUS0g6mVmdAH4SHhzsGGXgo3Zd0N7sJQFj7ftZtFLFd0Akw 5zhrR8A0bWBfKdrc50iVgvQy1elD+vyM+b+UlcZ6ISUoue2V7wpZyHSLD8BhCVyut8nl 90Df3hzJ2YkE7S1UgFaZ/zlIEJ8ipfMQjxOQ8= Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:37:47 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Kacur Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] init: remove the BKL from startup code Message-ID: <20100709133744.GF5291@nowhere> References: <1278194552-24943-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1278194552-24943-3-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1278194552-24943-3-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:02:26AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I have shown by code review that no driver takes > the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the > init code was locking against is no longer there > and it is now safe to remove the BKL there. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt > --- Just trying to find any possible races here but I can't find any obvious. But I hope other reviewers can give it a look. In the meantime, I'll queue that in my bkl/core branch so that it can live some times in linux-next. Thanks.