Re: [PATCH 4/5] usb:Push BKL on open down into the drivers

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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010 17:43:17 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 
> > > From 271f10a4643c788be08cc481dc594ee87af25140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:46:08 +0100
> > > Subject: [PATCH 4/5] usb:Push BKL on open down into the drivers
> > > 
> > > Straightforward push into the drivers to allow
> > > auditing individual drivers separately
> > 
> > This is a lot of work.  Maybe it should be submitted separately from
> > the usbfs changes.
> 
> How would you like it? Submitted to lkml? I hesitate to split it up.
> Due to the peculiar semantics of the BKL it could be applied as several
> patches and stay bisectable, but I don't think this is a good idea.
> Locking changes should be done in one piece.

No, I just meant that since all the other patches in this series affect
usbfs and this one doesn't, it shouldn't be part of the series.  But 
since Greg has accepted it, this doesn't matter.

Alan Stern

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