Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 18:58:40 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 16:17:10 schrieb Alan Stern: > > Can't we simply remove the BKL from devio.c entirely? > > Sure, it just means auditing all drivers. Do you think it's worth it > considering that open() is a rare operation? I am not sure. OK, I can find no other open this would race with. This leaves two options a) it is useless b) it locks against something arcane Which is it? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
