linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: vt, make sysfs operations atomic

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Message-ID: <20080526125806.0a9922de@core>
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 12:58:06 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: vt, make sysfs operations atomic

On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:53:32 +0200
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:

> Hold console sem while creating/destroying sysfs files. Serialisation is
> so far done by BKL held in tty release_dev and chrdev_open, but no other
> locks are held in open path.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
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