Re: [PATCH] drm: convert drm_ioctl to unlocked_ioctl

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 18 December 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> This looks good, I've taken this and I've squashed
> the generic pieces of your RFC into this (i.e.
> I haven't modified the drivers, but just added the
> flag to allow the ioctls to be unlocked if the driver
> selects them).
> 
> Do you think we should try and get this in soon,
> its seems like it shouldn't have any regressions
> unless we start switching drivers over.

Well, since the patch should not change the behaviour
of the drivers, it probably doesn't matter to users
either way. However, it touches a number of places,
which can break patches that others are working on,
so maybe you should get it upstream at a point that
has the least impact to developer (possibly now).

Doing it now at least makes it easier to test
moving drivers to unlocked operation.

	Arnd
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