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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:54:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199991298.3141.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080110180529.GA32640@skl-net.de>


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 19:05 +0100, Andre Noll wrote:
> [Resent with proper subject and to additional recipients]
> 
> This patch against linus-current is compile-tested on x86 and x86-64.
> 
> Please review

This is rather long.  For the utility of what you've just done, what's
wrong with just making the .unlocked_ioctl point to sg_unlocked_ioctl()
and doing:

sg_unlocked_ioctl()
	int rc;

	lock_kernel();
	rc = sg_ioctl();
	unlock_kernel();

	return rc;
}

Really, all this is doing is open coding what the ioctl handler is doing
anyway, isn't it? in which case, why bother to change it at all?

James



  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-10 18:05 [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl Andre Noll
2008-01-10 18:54 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-01-10 18:59   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-10 19:21       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:03     ` James Bottomley
2008-01-10 19:32       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:33         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-10 19:38           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:07     ` Andre Noll
2008-01-10 19:29       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:45         ` Andre Noll
2008-01-10 20:09           ` James Bottomley
2008-01-10 20:13           ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-10 20:40             ` Andre Noll

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