Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:02:11 +0200 |
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On Friday 07 August 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Ok. This looks like a nice series. A bkl pushdown that only goes down > in one site among several others enlightens the understanding of what it > is protecting (beside the nice fact it also burned three bkl callsites :-)
Thanks!
Well, most importantly patch 5/5 fixes a long-standing bug where we held the BKL in lots of places that were already proven not to need it, or alternatively held it twice (nested) in the ioctls that may still need it.
I did patch 3/5 this way because I read that you were working on BKL removal for TTY and wanted to do my share by removing the dependency on the code that I care about (fs/compat_ioctl.h).
Arnd <><
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