Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 07:11:50 EST

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In article <01112211121601.00690@argo> you wrote:
> At least some of the removals in the input tree are probably wrong. You are
> introducing a race with deregistering of input devices.

Nope, it's fine to remove it. Input is racy all over the place and the list
are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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