Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 15:50:34 EDT

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> The changes you made to some of the sound drivers seem to imply
> it's possible to enter release()/mmap() before open() returns, is
> this right?

You need to take the BKL in the release function of the old OSS driver
and hold it for the whole release - basically OSS needs to hold the BKL at
all points - its too ugly to fix

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