> So if I write my own driver and have never heard of ioctls running on BKL > before I can rather be sure that I just can change the interface of the ioctl > function, put it in unlocked_ioctl and are fine? Cool. If you know the BKL is not needed in your code you should use unlocked_ioctl correct. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html