Re: [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl

Andi Kleen
2008-01-10T19:36:19Z

> If your goal is to get rid of the BKL everywhere, sure. It's not clear
> to me this is the most productive way of spending our time though.

I believe eventually eliminating ->ioctl (as opposed to ->unlocked_ioctl)
would be a productive thing to do. Still having implicit BKL semantics in
such an important interface is just wrong.

-Andi