Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760208AbYAJTrB (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:47:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756345AbYAJTqw (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:46:52 -0500 Received: from systemlinux.org ([83.151.29.59]:34845 "EHLO m18s25.vlinux.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756303AbYAJTqu (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:46:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:45:50 +0100 From: Andre Noll To: Andi Kleen Cc: James Bottomley , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Richard Knutsson Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl Message-ID: <20080110194550.GB20152@skl-net.de> References: <20080110180529.GA32640@skl-net.de> <1199991298.3141.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080110185944.GA1690@one.firstfloor.org> <20080110190748.GA20152@skl-net.de> <20080110192950.GG747@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080110192950.GG747@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1323 Lines: 43 --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20:29, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Sure, I can do that if James likes the idea. Since not all case > > statements need the BKL, we could add it only to those for which it > > isn't clear that it is unnecessary. > >=20 > > And this would actually improve something. >=20 > I still think it would be a good strategy to first add it to all > (in a essentially nop semantics patch) and then later eliminate > it from the cases that obviously don't need it.=20 James, would you accept such a patch? Andre --=20 The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhnXuWto1QDEAkw8RAluDAJ4i4avyxYwAI9e/FJSSEvpb+12IOACgpiCz RQnRIpdQjM4i/8RVo+nVnEA= =/fp3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs-- -- 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/