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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2009-11-05 04:37:27 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-07 00:46:39 -0800
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net/ipx: push down BKL into a ipx_dgram_ops
Making the BKL usage explicit in ipx makes it more obvious where it is used, reduces code size and helps getting rid of the BKL in common code. I did not analyse how to kill lock_kernel from ipx entirely, this will involve either proving that it's not needed, or replacing with a proper mutex or spinlock, after finding out which data structures are protected by the lock. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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