24 Jun, 2005

1 commit

• bb93e3a52   [PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices ... Browse Code »

  This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
  unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems. All
  functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
  way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
  functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.

  As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
  well, which looks like a bug. I have checked that every user of
  disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
  it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().

  Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
  Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
  Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

  Arnd Bergmann

  2005-06-24 00:45:32 +0800  

06 May, 2005

1 commit

• 2ef41634d   [PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_device ... Browse Code »

  The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily. Also
  update some comments.

  Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
  Cc:
  Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
  Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

  Christoph Hellwig

  2005-05-06 07:36:44 +0800  

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

• 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »

  Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
  even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
  archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
  3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
  git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
  infrastructure for it.

  Let it rip!

  Linus Torvalds

  2005-04-17 06:20:36 +0800