On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:58:48 +0100 (CET) Cedric Roux <sed@xxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Cedric Roux <sed@xxxxxxx> > > A ioctl interface and two ioctl commands added to /dev/vcsaN > to get/put the current palette of the given tty. > > ... > > - lock_kernel() is called. Maybe it's not necessary? I'm not > confident enough. You decide. I wouldn't have a clue what it's protecting in there. But it seems sane to put it in - once someone gets down and de-lock_kernel()s that code, they can work out what it should be replaced by. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
