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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:17:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: bkl-removal: drivers/firewire and drivers/ieee1394 patches can be reverted/ dropped Jonathan, please revert commits "firewire: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown" aabbc0e478bf1e82e7f4a9ec61abb8a1a259175b http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=aabbc0e478bf1e82e7f4a9ec61abb8a1a259175b "ieee1394: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown" 8fff9d8cda2b288231fd100333fed26b9bb2042f http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=8fff9d8cda2b288231fd100333fed26b9bb2042f and drop them before mainline submission. I looked at the respective drivers last month and came to the conclusion that fw_device_op_open(), dv1394_open(), raw1394_open() are safe to be called without the BKL held. I specifically looked for possible races with module initialization or with other processes accessing the respective character device file interface and found none. (Well, extremely early openers of dv1394 or raw1394 could find the devices not yet operational, i.e. they may look to the opener as if no hardware were present. But this is no real-world problem. All actual application programs which use those device files will in practice access them only after module initialization was finished and thus be able to get through to hardware.) I found a race condition of video1394_open() with module initialization and fixed it in commit "ieee1394: video1394: reorder module init, prepare BKL removal" 6ee70088d975130142debdf1f6fe07958d3d2f26 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=6ee70088d975130142debdf1f6fe07958d3d2f26 Thanks, -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -==- -==-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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