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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:13:20 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
Johan Hovold <jhovold@...il.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Remove BKL
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:58:14 +0100
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it> wrote:
> Seems to me that BKL don't protect nothing here anymore. So I would want suggest to remove it.
What now stops parallel calls to the config ioctl making a nasty mess ?
The current locking is broken certainly, but removing it is not the fix
(the speed locking is broken too on that path I notice)
Alan
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