Re: [PATCH] HPET: Remove the BKL.

From: David John
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 07:08:28 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
> David John <davidjon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Concurrent access is protected by the spin lock hpet_lock. The
>> BKL is not required.
>
> You should probably also convert the .ioctl = ... to .unlocked_ioctl.
> Otherwise you still got implicit BKL for the ioctls.
>
> -Andi
>

Thanks. I'll fix it up.

David.
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