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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-05-16 13:40:30 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-06-20 14:05:50 -0600
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treec5efcd4a1ae50101a56abc1f5a27ef5173da209d /drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
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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>
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
index b31faeccb9cd..2239d16fb9b5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c
@@ -862,6 +862,8 @@ out:
} /* End twa_chrdev_ioctl() */
/* This function handles open for the character device */
+/* NOTE that this function will race with remove; adding BKL
+ will not help. */
static int twa_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
unsigned int minor_number;
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