Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752639Ab0D0PJb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:09:31 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:43692 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751447Ab0D0PJa (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:09:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:09:19 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John Kacur , lkml , Linus Torvalds , Frederic Weisbecker , Jan Blunck , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function Message-ID: <20100427150919.GB16794@logfs.org> References: <1272378265-10909-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20100427145804.GA16794@logfs.org> <201004271705.50499.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <201004271705.50499.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 30 On Tue, 27 April 2010 17:05:50 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Jörn Engel wrote: > > On Tue, 27 April 2010 16:24:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > I'm sure that logfs doesn't rely on the BKL, but right now, > > > we're just pushing it down. > > > > So why do you create logfs_unlocked_ioctl in the first place? ;) > > I don't want to get caught in discussions on whether any of my patches > might introduce silent bugs in something I'm not maintaining. Also > to put pressure on maintainers by threatening them to make their code > ugly. > > If you just add a patch to convert to ->unlocked_ioctl without > the BKL, we can drop this patch ;-) I guess that's threatening enough. Is this for the next merge window or still the current one? Jörn -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein -- 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/