From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:39:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl Message-Id: <20080110113954.GL3510@agk.fab.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20080108164015.GC31504@one.firstfloor.org> <1199909560.6245.67.camel@cinder.waste.org> <20080109224026.GA4039@agk.fab.redhat.com> <200801100149.16301.phillips@phunq.net> In-Reply-To: <200801100149.16301.phillips@phunq.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Matt Mackall , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:49:15AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote: > So what stops you from changing to unlocked_ioctl for the main device > mapper ctl_ioctl? Nothing - patches to do this are queued for 2.6.25: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-ioctl-remove-lock_kernel.patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-ioctl-move-compat-code.patch Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com