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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-10-14 16:36:26 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-10-14 17:36:54 +0200
commitf96d3015e9f7f7fff4cab7ed1d467664cc980061 (patch)
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inifiband: Remove BKL from ipath_open()
cycle_kernel_lock() got pushed down to ipath_open(). I tried hard to understand what it might protect, but finally gave up. Roland noted that qlogic seems to have abandoned the ipath driver and came to the following wise conclusion: "So I guess if the BKL stuff is blocking you in any way, we can just drop it from ipath and leave it as yet another race condition in a rotting old driver." Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <adad44tj090.fsf@cisco.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
index 40dbe54056c7..73933a41ce84 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
@@ -1821,7 +1821,6 @@ done:
static int ipath_open(struct inode *in, struct file *fp)
{
/* The real work is performed later in ipath_assign_port() */
- cycle_kernel_lock();
fp->private_data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipath_filedata), GFP_KERNEL);
return fp->private_data ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}