Re: [PATCH 2/8] init: remove the BKL from startup code

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Jul 09 2010 - 09:38:08 EST


On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:02:26AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I have shown by code review that no driver takes
> the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
> init code was locking against is no longer there
> and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
> ---



Just trying to find any possible races here but I can't find any
obvious. But I hope other reviewers can give it a look.

In the meantime, I'll queue that in my bkl/core branch so that
it can live some times in linux-next.

Thanks.

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