From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Kent Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:31:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1284687079.3083.7.camel@localhost> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=7EJ9IxycKAhPABoDwnl+Ov9djnY=; b=ZrawSwEebWYuDxGRzXC4WeI1rtkBqnbooQiftETG3XAjgXVcIJm1iG+9jaUrZsyYbw9b7l2hcyiIHlBdTo/u5Tzpqb0KkWkKwEcOXDhW+ddJ/jPwIV9AqjDwu7RP9zY08QALOb7oLjmaOY3SoDnJGemInqY4KRYq3oacfocBjyk= In-Reply-To: <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/16/2010 10:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 16 September 2010 19:49:53 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> On 09/16/2010 10:46 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >>> autofs4 uses the BKL only to guard its ioctl operations. > >>> This can be trivially converted to use a mutex, as we have > >>> done with most device drivers before. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > >>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > >>> --- > >>> fs/autofs4/root.c | 12 +++++++----- > >>> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > >> > >> You may want to Cc: the maintainer, Ian Kent. > > > > Ah, sorry about this. I looked at the wrong MAINTAINERS entry. > > > > I also forgot to Cc you about autofs3, adding more to the confusion. ;) > > > > Do you think the time has come to move autofs3 to drivers/staging > > as we deprecate the BKL? > > > > I'm leaving that up to Ian. I have offered for years to just plain kill > off autofs3. Yeah, my bad, again. Now I want to wait for David Howells VFS automount series, which we're working on now, since that will be a significant change. > > -hpa