Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 18:46:24 -0500 (CDT) | From | Mike Isely <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL |
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On Thu, 22 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> For most drivers the generic ioctl handler does the work and we update it > and it becomes the unlocked_ioctl method. Older drivers use the usercopy > method so we make it do the work. Finally there are a few special cases. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
The pvrusb2 driver already should not require the BKL. Though since this driver (like every V4L driver) is using video_usercopy() then it's obviously going along for the ride here with respect to the overall issue here in pushing the lock down into video_usercopy(). In the mean time, for the pvrusb2 portion of this patch...
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