linux-kernel - Re: bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?

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Message-ID: <20080518110812.5485de20@core>
Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 11:08:12 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?

> I have yet to test a current kernel version with this patch reverted
> because I am too sleepy right now to solve the conflicts.

That wouldn't actually be a useful test if you did as the locking changes
would then bite you. The patch in question should just be a locking
change so short of compiler bugs ought to be fairly easy to audit. I will
dig into it next week.

Alan
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