[PATCH 2/7] mtd: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 21:53 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
> way to serialize their private file operations,
> typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
> pushdown from VFS.
> 
> None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
> other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
> lock in their file operations, meaning that there
> is no lock-order inversion problem.
> 
> Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
> replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
> Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
> typos.
> 

Looks good, are you going to merge them all yourself or you want this to
go via the mtd tree?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)