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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:09:03 +0200
From:	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@...ischhofer.net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Fr??d??ric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from open

Dear Mr. Bergmann,

2010/4/26 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>:
> On Monday 26 April 2010, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
>> It is what effectively I'm trying to do!
>>
>> The first part of this work is already present in USB subsystem
>> maintainer tree (aka greg) at:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/usb/usb-sisusbvga-remove-the-bkl-from-ioctl.patch
>>
>
> Ok, looks good then. I just wouldn't bother splitting the work into two patches if you
> want to do this for more drivers.

You are right. Simply I made the above-mentioned patch when BKL
pushdown not yet reach _open function. :-)

Ciao,
Alessio
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