Re: ioctl definition - has it changed recently?

From: Piotr Hosowicz
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 03:11:47 EST


On 16.08.2010 08:58, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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

Now I know how to do it.

and then make it use the unlocked_ioctl operation.

This I do not know. Can You help me?

Regards,

Piotr Hosowicz

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