Re: [patch 1/1] Convert drivers in drivers/char/drm to use .unlocked_ioctl

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 23:09:24 EST


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:37:50AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> > The drm drivers in this patch all used drm_ioctl to perform their
> > ioctl calls. The common function is converted to use lock_kernel()
> > and unlock_kernel() and the drivers are converted to use .unlocked_ioctl
> >
>
> NAK

Did you actually read Kevin's patch?

>
> I've started looking at this already in the drm git tree, I'm going to
> provide both locked and unlocked paths for drivers to choose, as we need

If you do that you'll exactly need Kevin's patch as a base.

-Andi
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