From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: piotr@hosowicz.com
Subject: Re: ioctl definition - has it changed recently?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:58:42 +0200
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On Sunday 15 August 2010 00:10:29 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> Yes, this was it. I made git pull and git revert and now I am up and 
> kicking. But how will I manage with it not by git but by kernel org 
> provioded files? And even if I used git all the time will I have to 
> revert it each time and what's the worse I will become more and more out 
> of sync because people will write their code as if I did not revert.

Just fix your driver code to no longer rely on the big kernel lock
and then make it use the unlocked_ioctl operation.

	Arnd
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