From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [patch 1/5] hwmon: Convert fschmd to unlocked_ioctl
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:37:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911061437.06978.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF42672.7040501@redhat.com>
On Friday 06 November 2009, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Moving the ident struct to the data structure would have it needlessly
> using RAM all the time, the best and simplest fix for this is to simply
> stop declaring ident static inside the ioctl function.
Ok. Considering the case of multiple watchdogs in the system, that seems
best then. Of course, the watchdog infrastructure does not allow this
right now, but it may be added at some point.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 20:28 [patch 0/5] BKL another bunch Thomas Gleixner
2009-10-15 20:28 ` [patch 1/5] hwmon: Convert fschmd to unlocked_ioctl Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-06 13:15 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2009-11-06 13:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-06 13:31 ` Jean Delvare
2009-11-06 13:36 ` Hans de Goede
2009-11-06 13:37 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-11-06 13:35 ` Hans de Goede
2009-11-06 15:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-12-17 13:12 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-15 20:28 ` [patch 2/5] macintosh: Remove BKL from nvram driver Thomas Gleixner
2009-10-15 20:28 ` [patch 3/5] sunrpc: Convert to unlocked_ioctl and remove stray smp_lock.h Thomas Gleixner
2009-10-15 20:28 ` [patch 4/5] mtd: Remove BKL and convert to unlocked_ioctl Thomas Gleixner
2009-10-16 6:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-20 5:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-10-15 20:28 ` [patch 5/5] bluetooth: Remove stub ioctl in hci_vhci Thomas Gleixner
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