Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipx: remove the BKL

[David Miller]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2011 00:13:11 +0100

> This replaces all instances of lock_kernel in the
> IPX code with lock_sock. As far as I can tell, this
> is safe to do, because there is no global state
> that needs to be locked in IPX, and the code does
> not recursively take the lock or sleep indefinitely
> while holding it.
> 
> Compile-tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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