Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 19:04:46 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:32:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > I've queued it for the next merge window in
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
> > bkl/ioctl
>
> Btw, I hope you took the second version, that had the two additional fixes
> from Arnd (and my expansion of his fix to au1550_ac97.c).


Yeah.



> Looking at the arch code, I doubt there are any big architecture-specific
> things. But there could easily be some other drivers like au1550_ac97.c
> that only get enabled on certain architectures and missed the grepping for
> some reason.
>
> That said, because of Arnd's fix, I did end up grepping for
> 'file_operations' and old-style gcc initializers (ie "ioctl: xyz" rather
> than the proper ".ioctl = xyz"), and the grep came up empty.
>
> But it's possible that there's something hiding: with all of serial,
> bluetooth, block drivers, sound, socket proto's and v4l2 each having their
> own 'ioctl' pointers, it's not entirely trivial to grep for it all and be
> sure..
>
> So there might be one or two cases still hiding, but it looks unlikely.
> And I'm almost certain that it definitely isn't more than just one or two.


Ok, thanks.

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