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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 14:36:20 EST


> If your goal is to get rid of the BKL everywhere, sure. It's not clear
> to me this is the most productive way of spending our time though.

I believe eventually eliminating ->ioctl (as opposed to ->unlocked_ioctl)
would be a productive thing to do. Still having implicit BKL semantics in
such an important interface is just wrong.

-Andi
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