Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754214AbYH1Nx1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:53:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752519AbYH1NxT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:53:19 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55366 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751947AbYH1NxS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:53:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:52:45 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Osterlund , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 Message-ID: <20080828135245.GA12410@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 24 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:40:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > Why not just revert the offending change and try again during the next > > merge window, assuming someone has figured out an acceptable way to > > handle this mess by then? > > Well,, for 2.6.27 that's what we'll have to do. But there's actually a > real problem here - the unlocked ioctl's (which we _should_ prefer) have a > strictly weaker and worse interface. I also wonder if any other > block_ioctl users were converted.. Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster. The right things to pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device. Al had all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary -- 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/