From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100917.163530.266095048.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: arnd@arndb.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1284659185-8942-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:46:19 +0200 > The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks > s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org I've searched Linus's tree, net-2.6, and net-next-2.6 and I cannot find one reference to lock_kernel() in drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c in any of them. What did you write this patch against?