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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:41:56 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver
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On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:34:53AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 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?

I've taken this patch, I didn't see any others sent to me :(

thanks,

greg k-h