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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:30:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111221230.fAMCU6QJ007258@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>  of "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:11:50 BST." <200111221211.fAMCBoc15728@ns.caldera.de>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> said:
> In article <01112211121601.00690@argo> you wrote:
> > At least some of the removals in the input tree are probably wrong. You
> > are introducing a race with deregistering of input devices.

> Nope, it's fine to remove it.  Input is racy all over the place and the list
> are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways.

"It is broken anyway, breaking it some more makes no difference"!?
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-22 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-21 23:32 David C. Hansen
2001-11-22 10:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-22 12:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-22 12:30     ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-11-22 13:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23  9:44       ` Rick Lindsley
2001-11-23 10:10         ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-11-23 10:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 11:24             ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-26 17:46             ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-26 19:41               ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-26 19:53                 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-23 12:08           ` Rick Lindsley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-06 20:04 [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup Tim Schmielau
2001-11-06 21:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 21:37 ` Philip Blundell
2001-11-07  0:10   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 23:58     ` Tim Hockin
2001-09-20 20:07 XFS to main kernel source Gonyou, Austin
2001-09-20 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:16   ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:25     ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-20 21:31       ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21  3:12         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-21  3:25           ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21  4:42             ` Nathan Scott
2001-09-21  5:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-21  8:40           ` Narancs v1
2001-09-21 14:19         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 14:45           ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:40     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 18:03       ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-20 20:50   ` Alan Cox

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