The patch titled phonedev: remove BKL has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is phonedev-remove-bkl.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: phonedev: remove BKL From: Richard Holden <aciddeath@xxxxxxxxx> The phone_device array is covered by the phone_lock mutex in all cases and request_module no longer needs the BKL so we can remove the only remaining instance of the BKL from phonedev. Signed-off-by: Richard Holden <aciddeath@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/telephony/phonedev.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/telephony/phonedev.c~phonedev-remove-bkl drivers/telephony/phonedev.c --- a/drivers/telephony/phonedev.c~phonedev-remove-bkl +++ a/drivers/telephony/phonedev.c @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ static int phone_open(struct inode *inod if (minor >= PHONE_NUM_DEVICES) return -ENODEV; - lock_kernel(); mutex_lock(&phone_lock); p = phone_device[minor]; if (p) @@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ static int phone_open(struct inode *inod fops_put(old_fops); end: mutex_unlock(&phone_lock); - unlock_kernel(); return err; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aciddeath@xxxxxxxxx are phonedev-remove-bkl.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html