Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759617AbYAJKEo (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:04:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759312AbYAJKEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:04:23 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:33498 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759279AbYAJKEW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:04:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:06:57 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com Subject: Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl Message-ID: <20080110100657.GB25292@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20080108164015.GC31504@one.firstfloor.org> <200801100952.55039.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> <20080110092528.GA25076@one.firstfloor.org> <200801101102.16971.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801101102.16971.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 554 Lines: 13 > So if I write my own driver and have never heard of ioctls running on BKL > before I can rather be sure that I just can change the interface of the ioctl > function, put it in unlocked_ioctl and are fine? Cool. If you know the BKL is not needed in your code you should use unlocked_ioctl correct. -Andi -- 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/