Re: [PATCH] mmtimer: Push BKL down into the ioctl handler
- From: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2008 07:49:59 -0400
"Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Alan> Switches to unlocked_ioctl read to remove ioctl BKL method. Fix
Alan> the unknown ioctl return. Probably a nice easy one to kill off
Alan> BKL usage entirely later
Alan> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me, I should check whether we can't just kill the
lock_kernel() here - I suspect it shouldn't be an issue.
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Jes
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