Re: [PATCH] sony_pi: Remove the BKL from sonypi_misc_open

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Oct 19 2009 - 00:20:08 EST


On Sunday 18 October 2009, John Kacur wrote:
> The BKL is in this function because of the BKL pushdown
> (see commit f8f2c79d594463427f7114cedb1555110d547d89)
>
> It is not needed here because the mutex_lock sonypi_device.lock
> provides the necessary locking.

The driver still uses the BKL in the ioctl function, which can
probably be removed at the same time.

Arnd <><
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