Re: [patch 4/7] sh: Remove BKL from landisk gio

[Paul Mundt]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:42:33AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The open function got the BKL via the big push down. Replace it by
> preempt_enable/disable as this is sufficient for an UP machine.
> 
> The ioctl can be unlocked because there is no functionality which
> requires serialization. The usage by multiple callers is broken with
> and without the BKL due to the local static variable addr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to my 2.6.32 queue, thanks Thomas.
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