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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 03:03:36 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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


Hmm, several subsystems are involved in this patchset.
But another one is concerned by the tty tree:

[PATCH 2/5] s390: move keyboard compat ioctls into tty3270 driver

But this whole patchset seems broken if it gets disseminated in several
trees.
May be the whole patchset can go in yours?