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| author |   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2009-11-05 04:37:27 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-11-07 00:46:39 -0800 |
| commit | 83927ba069a65326f39991a02d6a49ba3b7cea44 (patch) | |
| tree | a4286ea9985ba13dbb49a7f3f2898c40d11558ee /REPORTING-BUGS | |
| parent | net/appletalk: push down BKL into a atalk_dgram_ops (diff) | |
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net/ipx: push down BKL into a ipx_dgram_ops
Making the BKL usage explicit in ipx makes it more
obvious where it is used, reduces code size and helps
getting rid of the BKL in common code.
I did not analyse how to kill lock_kernel from ipx
entirely, this will involve either proving that it's not
needed, or replacing with a proper mutex or spinlock,
after finding out which data structures are protected
by the lock.
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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