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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.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 20:38:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110193839.GA2120@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080110193321.GH18741@parisc-linux.org>

> If your goal is to get rid of the BKL everywhere, sure.  It's not clear
> to me this is the most productive way of spending our time though.

I believe eventually eliminating ->ioctl (as opposed to ->unlocked_ioctl)
would be a productive thing to do. Still having implicit BKL semantics in 
such an important interface is just wrong.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 19:36 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
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 [this message]
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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