On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:13:18AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > We have shown that the BKL in default_llseek and other > llseek operations never protects against concurrent access > from another function: >From VFS POV no to the default_llseek conversion. As told you and others of the BKL brigade don't change this thing but get rid of it entirely. I was under the impression we had agreed on a road map for that anyway. Please don't forget that overall kernel improvement should at least be a side effect of your big sweap and clean. -- 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