Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function

Jörn Engel
2010-04-27T15:09:31Z

On Tue, 27 April 2010 17:05:50 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 April 2010 16:24:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm sure that logfs doesn't rely on the BKL, but right now,
> > > we're just pushing it down.
> >
> > So why do you create logfs_unlocked_ioctl in the first place? ;)
>
> I don't want to get caught in discussions on whether any of my patches
> might introduce silent bugs in something I'm not maintaining. Also
> to put pressure on maintainers by threatening them to make their code
> ugly.
>
> If you just add a patch to convert to ->unlocked_ioctl without
> the BKL, we can drop this patch ;-)

I guess that's threatening enough. Is this for the next merge window or
still the current one?

Jörn

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