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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-05-16 21:40:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2008-06-20 22:05:50 +0200 |
| commit | d21c95c569c462da20d491b75d0a45bd70ddc1bf (patch) | |
| tree | c5efcd4a1ae50101a56abc1f5a27ef5173da209d /drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | |
| parent | tty: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown (diff) | |
| download | linux-d21c95c569c462da20d491b75d0a45bd70ddc1bf.tar.xz linux-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/scsi/3w-xxxx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c index 8c22329aa85e..bbff029536ea 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c @@ -1027,6 +1027,8 @@ out: } /* End tw_chrdev_ioctl() */ /* This function handles open for the character device */ +/* NOTE that this function races with remove - adding BKL + won't help */ static int tw_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { unsigned int minor_number; |