Am Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010 17:45:52 schrieb Alan Stern: > 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. Very well, sometimes conservativism can be overdone. Patch is about to arrive. 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