Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 06:40:26 EST


On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:49:15AM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> So what stops you from changing to unlocked_ioctl for the main device
> mapper ctl_ioctl?

Nothing - patches to do this are queued for 2.6.25:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-ioctl-remove-lock_kernel.patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-ioctl-move-compat-code.patch

Alasdair
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