From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: a.zummo@towertech.it,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <915094.18966.qm@web82205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819005320.00075dba.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
--- Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0100 Russell King
> <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > The locking looks a rather random in there, so I'm not going to try to
> > create a patch.
> >
>
> Looks like this was caused by
>
> commit 5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878
> Author: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> Date: Wed Jul 23 21:30:33 2008 -0700
>
> rtc: remove BKL for ioctl()
I'm sure I saw someone else's fixup patch for that a couple weeks ago.
(Looks). Yes:
http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/ad65b883739f8c92#
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-11 13:43 [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks Russell King
2008-08-19 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-19 17:12 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-08-19 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20 13:27 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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