linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910072259230.9428@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:01:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0
> 
> Looks like we have overlaped.
> 
> Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed
> them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are
> visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area.

Now guess why I mentioned this branch sevaral times at the rt summit
last week. It's even documented in Jonathans excellent meeting
minutes on lwn.net :)

Thanks,

	tglx
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