linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: remove BKL leftovers

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Message-Id: <201009151050.07833.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:50:07 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: remove BKL leftovers

On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Remove the BKL usage added in "block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl".
> Virtio-blk doesn't use the BKL for anything, and doesn't implement any
> ioctl command by itself, but only uses the generic scsi_cmd_ioctl
> which is fine without the BKL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Looks good. Rusty, do you have a tree you want to stick this into?
If not, I can add it to my 'config' series' and drop my other patch
from the 'trivial' series.

	Arnd
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