netdev - Re: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs

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Message-Id: <20100917.163530.266095048.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:46:19 +0200

> The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is  protected by the superblocks
> s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org

I've searched Linus's tree, net-2.6, and net-next-2.6 and I cannot
find one reference to lock_kernel() in drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c
in any of them.

What did you write this patch against?
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