Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:27:19 +0200 (CEST) | From | John Kacur <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function |
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 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? >
Hasn't the "current" merge window been over with for weeks? I was assuming that bkl push down, or other bkl patches are for the next merge window.
You can ask Linus whether he'll take a convert unlocked_ioctl now or not.
John
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