Re: [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 08:05:17 EST

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:30:06AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > 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.
>
> "It is broken anyway, breaking it some more makes no difference"!?

Wether you lock access to shared data at one or zero points doesn't matter,
so it's not breaking it more.

Christoph

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