Re: Unnecessary BKL contention in video1394

[Andi Kleen]

> Adding Andi Kleen to CC, who added the BKL around __video1394_ioctl a
> long while back (when converting video1394 to compat_ioctl).
> 
> I don't feel that any replacement protection is needed, since the
> critical sections (where structures are used both in interrupts and in
> file_operations) are already protected by spinlocks.

Fine by me. I just did it to preserve old semantics because I didn't want
to audit the 1394 locking.  But if you think it's not needed feel free to remove
them.

-andi
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