On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:40:36PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:01:14AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > Would proc still be NULL if the IOCTL is called from a kernel thread ?
> >=20
> > We're making the semantics of such a call up as we go along. However I=
=20
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> > think that passing proc =3D=3D NULL if the secondary addresses are in k=
ernel=20
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> > space is reasonable.
>=20
> Won't this cause problems if the ioctl wants to sleep ?

Hmm.... Yes.

Now that I look at it more, we might add an extra flag to the file=20
descriptor flags, as they get passed in as the "fflag" parameter. There's=
=20
plenty of space, we just need to document it. :-)

Take care,

Bill