Re: [tip:bkl/drivers] drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 15:39:48 EST


On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> > drivers/hwmon/lis3lv02d.c
> > fs/cachefiles/daemon.c
> > fs/fuse/cuse.c
> > net/rfkill/core.c

Sigh, will have a look.

> > drivers/staging/android/binder.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_aac.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_evrc.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_in.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/audio_out.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/qdsp5/snd.c
> > drivers/staging/dream/smd/smd_qmi.c
> > drivers/staging/panel/panel.c

More sigh.

> These are new drivers that were merged after the pushdown
> and should be looked at, though I don't expect that any of
> them to need it because none of them use the locked ioctl
> method or any other form of BKL.

Right I looked at quite a bunch of them.

Thanks,

tglx
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