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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:14:58PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > Greg> No, as Ben said, do not do this. Use write. And as you are > Greg> only doing 1 type of ioctl, it shouldn't be an issue. Also > Greg> it will be faster than the ioctl due to lack of BKL usage :) > > This is no longer true. ioctls don't have to take the BKL now that > struct file_operations has unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl. Yes, but his patch did not use them :) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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