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Message-Id: <200710071302.15827.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:02:15 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, hch@....de Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] compat_ioctl: call disk->fops->compat_ioctl without BKL On Sunday 07 October 2007, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:19:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > It would be good to find out whether it has been using the BKL > > on purpose or by accident, before this patch gets applied. > > Leave it alone, for now - I'm rebasing my series on top of your 1--7 > and it will both makes ->ioctl() and ->compat_ioctl() called unlocked > and switches ->compat_ioctl() to passing bdev instead of struct file > (->unlocked_ioctl() simply dies). ok, excellent. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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