Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] ppc64: SPU file system | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 13:14:58 -0700 |
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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.
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