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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:06:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>
cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@...tec.co.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6 RFC] arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL
 from sys_execve



On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Greg Ungerer wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> On 10/13/2009 08:34 AM, John Kacur wrote:
> > > From e36c53d296132bc0ddbf6d9fb43ea5ea56dbd4a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: John Kacur<jkacur@...hat.com>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:37:28 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] arch/m68knommu/kernel/process.c: Remove the BKL from
> > sys_execve
> > 
> > This looks like a copy-and-paste of functionality that no-longer needs the
> > bkl.
> > Just remove it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Kacur<jkacur@...hat.com>
> 
> Tested and runs fine on m68knommu.
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>
> 
> Do you want me to push this into the m68knommu git tree,
> for eventual merging into Linus' tree?  Or are you going
> to push the whole set of patches together?

I'm collecting and pushing the BKL stuff, but if you want to take it
just let me know and I drop it.
 
Thanks,

	tglx
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