Re: [PATCH 5/6] v4l: convert v4l2-dev to unlocked_ioctl

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:15:09AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> v4l2 implements two separate file operations for drivers that use locked
> and unlocked ioctl callbacks. Since we want to remove the ioctl file operation
> in favor of the unlocked variant, this separation no longer seems helpful.
> 
> There is another series from Frederic Weisbecker that takes care
> of converting all v4l drivers to use the unlocked_ioctl variant, which
> brings the BKL pushdown one level further.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>



Mauro, would you prefer to take this version or the other that does the complete
v4l pushdown?

I can rebase the other series to the latest v4l branch if needed.


Thanks.


> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

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