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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Monday 29 March 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > The patch looks correct, but I probably wouldn't bother with the rename,
> > > > and simply drop the BKL in the caller.
> > > 
> > > I think a rename is better, I take compile errors over subtle
> > > breakage any day.
> > 
> > ok, fine with me.
> 
> I updated the git tree removing the unneeded serial change. Feel free to pull.
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6.git usb-bkl

Looks good to me. I guess it makes sense to merge this through Greg's USB
tree. AFAICT the only prerequisite to this series is to have CONFIG_BKL
enabled in Kconfig. Shall we add a that to 2.6.34 as 'def_bool y' for
preparation so we can queue up patches like this in maintainer trees?

	Arnd