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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:34:53 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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       Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:02:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 07 August 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Ok. This looks like a nice series. A bkl pushdown that only goes down
> > in one site among several others enlightens the understanding of what it
> > is protecting (beside the nice fact it also burned three bkl callsites :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Well, most importantly patch 5/5 fixes a long-standing bug where we held
> the BKL in lots of places that were already proven not to need it, or
> alternatively held it twice (nested) in the ioctls that may still need it.
> 
> I did patch 3/5 this way because I read that you were working on BKL
> removal for TTY and wanted to do my share by removing the dependency
> on the code that I care about (fs/compat_ioctl.h).
> 
> 	Arnd <><

Thanks!

I guess these patches could fit in the tty tree, unless someone has
objections?