Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:09:19 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function |
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On Tue, 27 April 2010 17:05:50 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Jörn Engel wrote: > > On Tue, 27 April 2010 16:24:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > I'm sure that logfs doesn't rely on the BKL, but right now, > > > we're just pushing it down. > > > > So why do you create logfs_unlocked_ioctl in the first place? ;) > > I don't want to get caught in discussions on whether any of my patches > might introduce silent bugs in something I'm not maintaining. Also > to put pressure on maintainers by threatening them to make their code > ugly. > > If you just add a patch to convert to ->unlocked_ioctl without > the BKL, we can drop this patch ;-)
I guess that's threatening enough. Is this for the next merge window or still the current one?
Jörn
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