Re: [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Remove BKL

[Alan Cox]

On Tue,  2 Feb 2010 14:58:14 +0100
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Seems to me that BKL don't protect nothing here anymore. So I would want suggest to remove it.

What now stops parallel calls to the config ioctl making a nasty mess ?

The current locking is broken certainly, but removing it is not the fix
(the speed locking is broken too on that path I notice)

Alan
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