Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:40:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > 
> > Why not just revert the offending change and try again during the next
> > merge window, assuming someone has figured out an acceptable way to
> > handle this mess by then?
> 
> Well,, for 2.6.27 that's what we'll have to do. But there's actually a 
> real problem here - the unlocked ioctl's (which we _should_ prefer) have a 
> strictly weaker and worse interface. I also wonder if any other 
> block_ioctl users were converted..

Actually both interfaces are a fscking disaster.  The right things to
pass is neither and inode nor a file but a struct block_device.  Al had
all this work done a while and it just needs rebasing to a current tree:

	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev.git;a=summary
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