Re: [patch 11/28] nvram: Drop the bkl from nvram_llseek()

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:50:24PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Now I'm adding the ioctl() sites too:
> > 
> > git-grep "\.ioctl *=" | grep -P "^\S+\.c" | wc -l
> > 452
> > 
> > Hehe :)
> 
> Not all of them, fortunately.
> 
> There are various *_operations structures that have a .ioctl pointer.
> While there are a lot of struct file_operations with a locked .ioctl
> operation, stuff like block_device_operations does not hold the
> BKL in .ioctl but in .locked_ioctl.
> 
> 	Arnd <><


Oh right. Thanks for the tip.

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