On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 19:55 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the > > ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex > > needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call > > back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion > > status (via another ioctl). > > > > This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same > > code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without > > issue, as was the original intention. > > Sign-off? Oops, sorry. Would you like me to re-send after asking those concerned if I can add their sign-off, and adding mine of course? Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
