Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756393Ab0D0Q3L (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:29:11 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:43170 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753951Ab0D0Q3G (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:29:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=l0vvjjXeTlDodTxkh8qnxEm3y0CeraV7JXae6Fke3wXZYfFeFL+XVmPNn6QZN0Jxxn yypuTFKPWS5L9eeQKBGwDK5qdUcjet4+kTvWIsLc0eohrPOU7RGlLHJGI15PaqgAISSY Psas69MwaSA3qsGn8sIrfrJOT3E/0n3Q1p6qE= Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:29:02 +0200 (CEST) From: John Kacur X-X-Sender: jkacur@localhost To: Linus Torvalds cc: John Kacur , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Arnd Bergmann , lkml , Frederic Weisbecker , Jan Blunck , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1272378265-10909-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20100427145804.GA16794@logfs.org> <201004271705.50499.arnd@arndb.de> <20100427150919.GB16794@logfs.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 31 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, John Kacur wrote: > > > > You can ask Linus whether he'll take a convert unlocked_ioctl now or not. > > Absolutely not. > > I could imagine merging something like just the bkl_ioctl rename: if it > breaks, it won't compile, so there is little risk, and _if_ it helps the > next merge window I could merge it early. > > But it looks like people are trying to avoid it entirely, and there is not > a way in *hell* I will take some big and scary "push BKL down" patch that > is clearly _not_ 99% mechanical and clearly _can_ introduce major and > subtle bugs while compiling. > Heh, that's exactly what I thought you would say, but still good to clarify it for everyone. John -- 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/