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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function
    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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