On Sat 2009-01-03 20:30:44, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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( I have seen this in new code (some LED driver last time), definitely no BKL. Is there concrete architecture where it breaks? I'd expect i386/x86-64 to be safe, and pretty much everyone to be safe as long as that long is aligned.... or that was the result of arch-maintainers discussion... I'd really like to document if it is right or not, so that I can point people to documentation... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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