linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: push down BKL into .locked

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:52:07 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl

Looking at this again I don't like the foo_unlock_ioctl naming you're
adding.  Just rename the existing ioctl routines to foo_locked_ioctl
or move the lock_kernel/unlock_kernel calls into the function, which
would be even better.

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