Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:11:50 +0100

In article <01112211121601.00690@argo> you wrote:
> At least some of the removals in the input tree are probably wrong. You are
> introducing a race with deregistering of input devices.

Nope, it's fine to remove it. Input is racy all over the place and the list
are modified somewhere else without any locking anyways.

Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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