Re: ioctl definition - has it changed recently?

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 02:59:41 EST


On Sunday 15 August 2010 00:10:29 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> Yes, this was it. I made git pull and git revert and now I am up and
> kicking. But how will I manage with it not by git but by kernel org
> provioded files? And even if I used git all the time will I have to
> revert it each time and what's the worse I will become more and more out
> of sync because people will write their code as if I did not revert.

Just fix your driver code to no longer rely on the big kernel lock
and then make it use the unlocked_ioctl operation.

Arnd
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