Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 7 authors, 2011-01-27

Re: [PATCH 14/20] staging/appletalk: remove the BKL

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-01-25 22:28:53
Also in: lkml

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:17:28 +0100
This changes appletalk to use lock_sock instead of
lock_kernel for serialization. I tried to make sure
that we don't hold the socket lock during sleeping
functions, but I did not try to prove whether the
locks are necessary in the first place.

Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
If you're moving appletalk to staging because "nobody is motivated
enough to remove the BKL" and then you actually do the work to remove
the BKL, I really don't see any point in doing the whole staging
thing.

We always keep an eye on every protocol that sits under the top-level
net/.  Every socket API change propagates, as does every other
networking API change that matters for those protocols.

You can move appletalk down to staging if that stops happening, which
it won't.
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help