Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261641AbVDEJN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:13:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261643AbVDEJN0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:13:26 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:19934 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261641AbVDEJNU (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:13:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:12:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20050405091255.GA28343@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , Dave Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050405000524.592fc125.akpm@osdl.org> <20050405074405.GE26208@infradead.org> <16978.22078.532831.667378@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16978.22078.532831.667378@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 25 On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:11:26PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Those DRI callers aren't in mainline but introduced in bk-drm.patch, > > looks like the DRI folks need beating with a big stick.. > > Settle down Christoph, the compat_ioctl method is less than 3 months > old, has only been in one official 2.6.x release, and isn't documented > at all in the Documentation directory AFAICS. Don't be so impatient. It's documented where the other filesystem entry points are documented. This is not about beeing impatient but about adding APIs that at the same time are actively removed all over the tree. > Anyway, I did the 32-bit ioctl conversion stuff for the DRM. I'll > look at changing it to use compat_ioctl. The big question of course > is whether the DRM code will work correctly without the BKL held. You can of course take the BKL inside your ->compat_ioctl method. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/