Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753120AbZCXWLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751360AbZCXWLX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:23 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42735 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750879AbZCXWLX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:01:36 -0700 From: Greg KH To: stoyboyker@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] [staging] changed ioctls to unlocked Message-ID: <20090324220136.GA12128@suse.de> References: <1237929168-15341-2-git-send-email-stoyboyker@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237929168-15341-2-git-send-email-stoyboyker@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 609 Lines: 17 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:12:36PM -0500, stoyboyker@gmail.com wrote: > From: Stoyan Gaydarov > > Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov Hm, why? What does this patch accomplish becides just pushing the lock_kernel into the driver? Shouldn't you fix the code to not need the lock_kernel at all instead? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/