Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:41:56 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver |
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On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:34:53AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:02:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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 <>< > > Thanks! > > I guess these patches could fit in the tty tree, unless someone has > objections?
I've taken this patch, I didn't see any others sent to me :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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