Re: [PATCH 5/5] usb:Reduce scope of BKL in usb ioctl handling

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> From 4cf751ce24b4eab5d34622fb2cfdc33f77de9693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:23:09 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 5/5] usb:Reduce scope of BKL in usb ioctl handling
> 
> This pushes BKL down in ioctl handling and drops it
> for some important ioctls

In fact none of the ioctls need the BKL, except for the place where 
proc_ioctl() calls driver->ioctl().  Everything else is handled right 
here in the core.

Alan Stern

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