Re: [patch 1/1] Switch ioctl functions of drivers/scsi/sg.c to unlocked_ioctl

From: Andre Noll
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 14:09:16 EST


On 19:59, Andi Kleen wrote:

> But perhaps for such a long ioctl handler it would be better to move
> the lock/unlock_kernel()s into the individual case ...: statements;
> then it could be eliminated step by step.

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.

Andre
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