Dear Mr. Neukum, 2010/4/26 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>: > Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 12:37:10 schrieb Alessio Igor Bogani: >> BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already provided >> by mutex sisusb->lock. > > Have you checked the fb layer doesn't need it? The _open and _release functions are already serialized with mutex in fb layer. So that mutex could be removed but in my opinion this job should be done in a separate patch (like I have done some time ago for nvidiafb driver). Now I would want suggest to remove BKL here only. Ciao, Alessio -- 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