Re: [PATCH 6/7] appletalk: remove the BKL

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 18:14:59 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:13:10 +0100

> This changes appletalk to use lock_sock instead of
> lock_kernel for serialization. I tried to make sure
> that we don't hold the socket lock during sleeping
> functions, but I did not try to prove whether the
> locks are necessary in the first place.
>
> Compile-tested only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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