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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:09:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 23/28] i2c: Remove big kernel lock from i2cdev_open
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Jean,

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Looks good to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> 
> Do you want me to pick this patch in my i2c tree, or will you take care
> of pushing it upstream? If you're not going to push it quickly, I'd
> prefer the first solution, to avoid conflicts.

I'm targeting for .33, but please pick it up. I drop it from my queue
then.

> (As a side note, i2c-dev would deserve a partial rewrite as it doesn't
> integrate into the standard device driver model, and certainly has a
> number of race conditions. But this is well beyond the scope of your
> patch.)

Yeah, noticed that this code needs some care, but my current dosis of
brain wreckage with the BKL stuff is enough :)

Thanks,

	tglx