From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762012AbYGAAQB (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:16:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755084AbYGAAPx (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:15:53 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:33286 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754863AbYGAAPw (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:15:52 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,729,1204531200"; d="scan'208";a="120661930" From: Roland Dreier To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: general@lists.openfabrics.org, Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , LKML , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open() References: <20080627095418.2353267d@bike.lwn.net> <20080630165543.1ccd8858@bike.lwn.net> X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:15:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080630165543.1ccd8858@bike.lwn.net> (Jonathan Corbet's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:43 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jul 2008 00:15:51.0452 (UTC) FILETIME=[9EC14DC0:01C8DB0F] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-1; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim1004 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > That's the general idea: audit the code where the BKL appears and > remove it when it's safe to do so. It's always an appropriate time; > the only question is whether you think this change is good to go into > the tree for 2.6.27, or whether it should hang out in linux-next for > one more cycle. I would assume that the extra time would not be > necessary. Yes, this change should be good to go for 2.6.27. Thanks, Roland