From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762528AbYEWAlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 20:41:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758761AbYEWAk4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 20:40:56 -0400 Received: from smtp115.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.88]:36850 "HELO smtp115.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757885AbYEWAkz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 20:40:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=jiDGP0cEskBF3vykpGr0gnYGkxm8x4Iw7Z2nJH3XvNASl1T+T8BMUeuHZQralwvxtPyElNxHDZO4YOL4hdFd3sIu7hjdh8wBUsL3rZerbYQDX6E8+dI3L3pQBM81kJ4fYfMEVYG4Iu6pSpgvzVqozEi8F8qMqbpAs+WJZWVF1fg= ; X-YMail-OSG: qE60BFwVM1naNZ0NauYCKEHS2y0K8xDpnBU..IprdSxy.W5Ls5ckvkWDJ.7ZcXNBQ4cVtAohDlJWS_dILeP443NbQHf6N7Zmve9UqXErdMZgIduICpKu2nWKPFlQLGrQG.8- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Push the BKL down into the drivers Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:40:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20080522224509.29ede566@core> In-Reply-To: <20080522224509.29ede566@core> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805221740.51016.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 22 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > Another step to removing ->ioctl and to removing the BKL This happens to not apply with the latest patches; I'll address that. Where is the writeup about exactly what lock_kernel() is supposed to have been protecting against in ioctl code? - Dave