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

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Message-Id: <201009161522.53064.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:22:52 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: remove BKL leftovers

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:57:23 am 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>

Applied,
Thanks!
Rusty.
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