Hi, these patches reduce the use of the BKL in usbcore. They do so by use other locks in its place, or pushing it down into drivers, or dropping it for some ioctls. To remove it completely ioctls and drivers have to be audited. 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