Re: [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks

[David Brownell]

--- Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0100 Russell King
> <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The locking looks a rather random in there, so I'm not going to try to
> > create a patch.
> > 
> 
> Looks like this was caused by
> 
> commit 5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878
> Author: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jul 23 21:30:33 2008 -0700
> 
>     rtc: remove BKL for ioctl()

I'm sure I saw someone else's fixup patch for that a couple weeks ago.
(Looks).  Yes:

http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/ad65b883739f8c92#
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