Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751521Ab0D0MsO (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:48:14 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:49064 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883Ab0D0MsJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:48:09 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 448 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:48:09 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=C85zu6qRB+Fvv3IjKktyM3Mr4I1lArRQ7a+Ye88pZR5g1BeYJHd3LGlCnDPZaMT4UI wCD3INtYaG8cPk2Z7hkOJPvdLwOY5s6gH9tZi/csRZqVSW1lAVvrBYFdNfBqWDmkc/ZK JF8aCgVtqg2TAC6rpTxWCfCLMcy39U2NR98ZI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201004271331.58130.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1272359898-32020-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <201004271331.58130.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:40:36 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] bkl: pushdowns from Arnd, and compile fixes From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John Kacur , lkml , Linus Torvalds , Jan Blunck , Thomas Gleixner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1546 Lines: 36 2010/4/27 Arnd Bergmann : > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, John Kacur wrote: >> These are bkl pushdowns from Arnd that conflicted with >> Linus's "Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal patch". I fixed-up the merge >> conflicts. In addition - during allyesconfig compile testing on x86_64 I found >> a number of issues that I fixed-up > > Thanks for catching the scsi bugs! It was getting late yesterday night, so > I didn't go through a full allyesconfig then. > >> I pushed these to my own new linus-bkl tree. >> git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkacur/jk-2.6.git linux-bkl >> >> Frederic, if you want to grab those, pls do so. also, we might want to combine >> my compile fixes with Arnd's push-down patches, for better git bisectability. > > Yes, your fixes (except the v4l2 patch, see comment there) should best be > merged into the main patches. > > The idea was that if we manage to kill all fops->ioctl users right away, > we wouldn't even need Linus' patch and move to dungeon level 2 directly. > Either way works for me though. Yeah. Since we are motivated enough to do the whole pushdown, I think we should forget the .bkl_ioctl renaming. This will let Greg take the staging part for example. I can take all the unmainted rest (basically most of the rest I guess). -- 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/