From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933561AbYF3Wz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:55:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763763AbYF3Wzq (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:55:46 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:53399 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762391AbYF3Wzp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:55:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:43 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Roland Dreier Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Arnd Bergmann , Andi Kleen , general@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open() Message-ID: <20080630165543.1ccd8858@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20080627095418.2353267d@bike.lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.13.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:43:20 -0700 Roland Dreier wrote: > Is this sort of patch the next step in the BKL-removal plan? Is now > an appropriate time to send such things? > > If this looks good to you I will do a careful audit of the rest of > drivers/infiniband/core and send you a few more similar patches. That's the general idea: audit the code where the BKL appears and remove it when it's safe to do so. It's always an appropriate time; the only question is whether you think this change is good to go into the tree for 2.6.27, or whether it should hang out in linux-next for one more cycle. I would assume that the extra time would not be necessary. Thanks, jon