Re: [RFC 0/9] BKL conversion in TTY drivers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 08:52:19 EST


On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Are you more worried that the interface conversion (patches 1-8)
> > can introduce bugs and make your life harder, or that the mutex
> > based implementation from patch 9 causes problems that were previously
> > hidden by other bugs?
>
> It doesn't really make any difference to me - I'm either removing the BKL
> or the BKM.

Ok, great!

Greg, are you ok with merging these TTY patches in your tree for 2.6.35
then? There will be at least one more respin of it for minor changes
and anything that comes up during testing, but it's essentially what I
posted here.

Arnd
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