linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from open

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Message-Id: <201004261406.50107.oneukum@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:06:50 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
Cc:	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@...ischhofer.net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from open

Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 12:37:10 schrieb Alessio Igor Bogani:
> BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already provided
> by mutex sisusb->lock.

Have you checked the fb layer doesn't need it?

	Regards
		Oliver
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