On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:45 +0100, Andre Noll wrote: > On 20:29, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Sure, I can do that if James likes the idea. Since not all case > > > statements need the BKL, we could add it only to those for which it > > > isn't clear that it is unnecessary. > > > > > > And this would actually improve something. > > > > I still think it would be a good strategy to first add it to all > > (in a essentially nop semantics patch) and then later eliminate > > it from the cases that obviously don't need it. > > James, would you accept such a patch? Our current suspicion is that none of the SCSI ioctl paths require the BKL. Al Viro said he'd try to look into this, so currently I think the conversion path is just to move .ioctl -> .unlocked_ioctl However, more eyes on the problem would be most welcome. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
