linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl

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Message-Id: <201004121705.44030.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:43 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] procfs: Kill the bkl in ioctl

On Saturday 10 April 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Do you mind if I rename this to deprecated_ioctl()?
> This "default" naming suggests a fallback everyone that don't
> need tricky things should use.

Sounds good. The idea was to keep the naming consistent with
default_llseek, but after the discussion on llseek, we will
probably do something else with it anyway.

	Arnd
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