Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver

Alan Cox
2009-08-07T09:56:40Z

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:23:58 +0200
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:09:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The VT specific compat_ioctl handlers are the only ones
> > in common code that require the BKL. Moving them into
> > the vt driver lets us remove the BKL from the other handlers
> > and cleans up the code.
>
>
> Why does it require the bkl?

It's always taken the BKL - you have to prove it doesn't need it. Which
btw isn't true - it does need it in various places still.

Alan