> Can you explain the rationale behind that running on the BKL? What type of It used to always run with the BKL because everything used to and originally nobody wanted to review all ioctl handlers in tree to see if they can run with more fine grained locking. A lot probably can though. > things needs to be protected so that this huge hammer is needed? What would > be an earlier point to release the BKL? That depends on the driver. A lot don't need BKL at all and in others it can be easily eliminated. But it needs case-by-case review of the locking situation. The goal of the proposal here is just to make it more visible. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
