linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:07:31 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@...oo.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:32:23PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> This patch converts ioctl call to unlocked_ioctl form with
> explicit big-kernel-lock. Also it makes a bit of cleanup
> converting miscdevice structure initialization to C99 form.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> Any comments are welcome.
> This is untested code - i've no such chip on my laptop.
> 
> Andi, i think we could use mutex to eliminate BKL, but not sure.

Looks like it can be dropped here. All usage of rtc-> is done under
rtc_lock. Every other variable there is thread-local.
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