> If it is okay and linux relies on it, it should be documented. > > If it is not okay, I guess we should document it, too -- it seems to > be common mistake. A lot of old code did it knowing it was under the BKL, outside of the BKL its a very bad idea. There were lots of them in the tty layer and I don't doubt there are some left I missed too 8( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html