On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > Why not just revert the offending change and try again during the next > merge window, assuming someone has figured out an acceptable way to > handle this mess by then? Well,, for 2.6.27 that's what we'll have to do. But there's actually a real problem here - the unlocked ioctl's (which we _should_ prefer) have a strictly weaker and worse interface. I also wonder if any other block_ioctl users were converted.. Anyway, I'll take your email as an ack for the revert. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html