On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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? I'm pretty sure the answer is a). It's probably just historical baggage. (Apart from the lseek issue, for which we could use a different lock.) Alan Stern -- 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
