linux-kernel - Re: [patch 25/28] parisc: Remove BKL from eisa

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Message-ID: <20091014173552.GO11702@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:35:53 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@...tec.co.uk>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...isc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 25/28] parisc: Remove BKL from eisa_eeprom

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:37:26PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Remove the empty ioctl and the cycle_kernel_lock() in
> eisa_eeprom_open() which got there with the big BKL push down. There
> is nothing to wait for and sychronize with after the misc device has
> been registered.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...isc-linux.org>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
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