Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:33:00 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Dave Airlie writes: > > > Paulus these look like your patches care to update them with the "new" > > method of doing stuff.. > > What are we going to do about the DRM CVS? Change it to the new way > and break everyone running 2.6.10 or earlier, or leave it at the old > way that will work for people with distro kernels, and have a > divergence between it and what's in the kernel?
(some distros like Fedora Core have modern kernels even for older releases)
> Also, the compat_ioctl method is called without the BKL held, unlike > the ioctl method. What impact will that have? Do we need to take the > BKL in the compat_ioctl method?
How much does DRM actually depend on the BKL? I would hope not too much...
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