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| author |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-05-16 13:40:30 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-06-20 14:05:50 -0600 |
| commit | d21c95c569c462da20d491b75d0a45bd70ddc1bf (patch) | |
| tree | c5efcd4a1ae50101a56abc1f5a27ef5173da209d /drivers/char/ppdev.c | |
| parent | tty: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-d21c95c569c462da20d491b75d0a45bd70ddc1bf.tar.xz linux-dev-d21c95c569c462da20d491b75d0a45bd70ddc1bf.zip | |
Add "no BKL needed" comments to several drivers
This documents the fact that somebody looked at the relevant open()
functions and concluded that, due to their trivial nature, no locking was
needed.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ppdev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ppdev.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c index 3aab837d9480..ce1987574888 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c +++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c @@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ static int pp_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, return 0; } +/* No BKL needed here: only local resources used */ static int pp_open (struct inode * inode, struct file * file) { unsigned int minor = iminor(inode); |