From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20080828135245.GA12410@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Osterlund , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List , viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:40:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > Why not just revert the offending change and try again during the next > > merge window, assuming someone has figured out an acceptable way to > > handle this mess by then? > > Well,, for 2.6.27 that's what we'll have to do. But there's actually a > real problem here - the unlocked ioctl's (which we _should_ prefer) have a > strictly weaker and worse interface. I also wonder if any other > block_ioctl users were converted.. Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster. The right things to pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device. Al had all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary