From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752942Ab0IQXfM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:35:12 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:33335 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782Ab0IQXfL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:35:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100917.163530.266095048.davem@davemloft.net> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] BKL: Remove BKL from capifs From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1284659185-8942-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) 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 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:46:19 +0200 > The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks > s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org I've searched Linus's tree, net-2.6, and net-next-2.6 and I cannot find one reference to lock_kernel() in drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c in any of them. What did you write this patch against?