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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:36 am

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

I don't see the point, frankly. Especially not outside the merge window, 
but quite frankly, I don't see it in general. The whole thing seems to be 
designed to be inconvenient, and to have a config option that I 
fundamentally don't believe in (CONFIG_BKL).

		Linus
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[GIT PULL] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Thu Apr 15, 8:56 pm)
[GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Wed Apr 21, 5:48 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Sat Apr 24, 8:25 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Apr 24, 11:36 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Apr 24, 11:47 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Sat Apr 24, 12:54 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Apr 24, 1:01 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Sat Apr 24, 1:40 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Apr 24, 3:15 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Sun Apr 25, 10:39 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Apr 25, 10:49 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Sun Apr 25, 11:05 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 26, 12:25 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 1:30 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 4:29 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 26, 11:08 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 12:12 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 26, 1:36 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, David Miller, (Mon Apr 26, 1:42 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Mon Apr 26, 3:09 pm)
[PATCH 0/6] Push down BKL into device drivers, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:23 pm)
[PATCH 1/6] dvb: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
[PATCH 2/6] scsi: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
[PATCH 3/6] isdn: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
[PATCH 4/6] staging: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
[PATCH 5/6] v4l: always use unlocked_ioctl, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
[PATCH 6/6] drivers: push down BKL into various drivers, Arnd Bergmann, (Mon Apr 26, 3:24 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 26, 3:32 pm)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Mon Apr 26, 4:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/6] Push down BKL into device drivers, John Kacur, (Tue Apr 27, 2:14 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 27, 2:25 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/6] staging: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Frederic Weisbecker, (Tue Apr 27, 11:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/6] staging: push down BKL into ioctl functions, Greg KH, (Tue Apr 27, 11:33 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Frederic Weisbecker, (Wed Apr 28, 6:21 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Apr 28, 6:37 am)
Re: [GIT PULL v2] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Apr 28, 7:05 am)