Andi Kleen wrote:
[Daniel Drake wrote:]
>> Adding Andi Kleen to CC, who added the BKL around __video1394_ioctl a
>> long while back (when converting video1394 to compat_ioctl).
>>
>> I don't feel that any replacement protection is needed, since the
>> critical sections (where structures are used both in interrupts and in
>> file_operations) are already protected by spinlocks.
>
> Fine by me. I just did it to preserve old semantics because I didn't want
> to audit the 1394 locking. But if you think it's not needed feel free to remove
> them.
Thanks for the info. Daniel, do you want to resend a signed-off patch?
And __video1394_ioctl and its wrapper video1394_ioctl can certainly be
merged then.
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