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

John Kacur
2010-04-27T16:29:11Z

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, John Kacur wrote:
> >
> > You can ask Linus whether he'll take a convert unlocked_ioctl now or not.
>
> Absolutely not.
>
> I could imagine merging something like just the bkl_ioctl rename: if it
> breaks, it won't compile, so there is little risk, and _if_ it helps the
> next merge window I could merge it early.
>
> But it looks like people are trying to avoid it entirely, and there is not
> a way in *hell* I will take some big and scary "push BKL down" patch that
> is clearly _not_ 99% mechanical and clearly _can_ introduce major and
> subtle bugs while compiling.
>

Heh, that's exactly what I thought you would say, but still good to
clarify it for everyone.

John