From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: unregister_ioctl32_conversion and modules. ioctl32 revisited. Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:53:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20041216075301.GC11047@elte.hu> References: <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de> <20041215074635.GC11501@mellanox.co.il> <1103135460.18982.68.camel@krustophenia.net> <20041216050356.GH32718@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041216050356.GH32718@wotan.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Lee Revell , Takashi Iwai , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, discuss@x86-64.org, gordon.jin@intel.com, alsa-devel , Andrew Morton , Greg KH List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org * Andi Kleen wrote: > > How does this all relate to Ingo's ->unlocked_ioctl stuff which is "an > > official way to do BKL-less ioctls"? > > This is another "official" way which is more powerful. I suppose it > will replace Ingo's patch. the ALSA changes are mine but i'm otherwise building ontop of the following patch in -rc3-mm1: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc3/2.6.10-rc3-mm1/broken-out/unlocked_ioctl.patch whichever approach gets adopted upstream, the various actors ought to synchronize a bit more - this is the third approach so far in a very short interval to get rid of the BKL in ioctls :-) Ingo