Re: [PATCH] tty: keyboard.c: Remove locking from vt_get_leds.

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:16:34 -0500
Christopher Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are three call sites for this function, and all three
> are called within a keyboard handler.
> kbd_event_lock is already held within keyboard handlers,
> so attempting to lock it in vt_get_leds causes deadlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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