Re: [PATCH 1/3, RFC] misc char dev BKL pushdown

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 01:26:28 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Big Kernel Lock has been pushed down from chardev_open
> to misc_open, this change moves it to the individual misc
> driver open functions.
> 
> As before, the change was purely mechanical, most drivers
> should actually not need the BKL. In particular, we still
> hold the misc_mtx() while calling the open() function
> The patch should probably be split into one changeset
> per driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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