From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756506Ab1AaVkT (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:40:19 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54199 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756487Ab1AaVkP (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:40:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:37:03 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Palash Bandyopadhyay , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] staging/cx25721: serialize access to devlist Message-ID: <20110131213703.GA10438@kroah.com> References: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1295993854-4971-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1295993854-4971-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Out of the three files accessing the device list, > one uses a mutex, one uses the BKL and one does > not have any locking. That is of course pointless, > so let's make all of them use the same mutex, > and get rid of one more BKL user. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Mauro, you will take this one, right? If so, please add: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman to it. If not, please let me know and I will take it myself. thanks, greg k-h