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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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On Sunday April 26, mingo@elte.hu wrote:
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> Hm, couldnt we switch the ioctl in drivers/md/md.c from 
> ->locked_ioctl to ->unlocked_ioctl?
> 
> Neil, what do you think?

Yes, definitely.  Though it is just 'ioctl', not 'unlocked_ioctl'.

I'll queue a patch for 2.6.31.

NeilBrown