Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function

[John Kacur]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, John Kacur wrote:
> >
> > You can ask Linus whether he'll take a convert unlocked_ioctl now or not.
> 
> Absolutely not.
> 
> I could imagine merging something like just the bkl_ioctl rename: if it 
> breaks, it won't compile, so there is little risk, and _if_ it helps the 
> next merge window I could merge it early.
> 
> But it looks like people are trying to avoid it entirely, and there is not 
> a way in *hell* I will take some big and scary "push BKL down" patch that 
> is clearly _not_ 99% mechanical and clearly _can_ introduce major and 
> subtle bugs while compiling. 
> 

Heh, that's exactly what I thought you would say, but still good to 
clarify it for everyone.

John 
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