Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open

From: John Kacur
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 18:10:28 EST




On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0
> >
> > Looks like we have overlaped.
> >
> > Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed
> > them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are
> > visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area.
>
> Now guess why I mentioned this branch sevaral times at the rt summit
> last week. It's even documented in Jonathans excellent meeting
> minutes on lwn.net :)
>

Well, the overlap is unfortunate but I did do a git diff with
tip/core/kill-the-BKL BEFORE I posted.

not sure what the difference is between
tip/kill-the-BKL
and
tip/core/kill-the-BKL
btw

Also
git describe 55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0
v2.6.31-rc6-4-g55968ed

Not sure what to make of that either, since my patch was against the
latest linus updated this morning.

Frederic: what was your method to discover that patch from Thomas?
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