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 09:33:11 +0800 Message-ID: <1284687191.3083.8.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> 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=qKgYZYqt49fq4BdQSRw3cy2BkM8=; b=i+IgJZO7cWdFlecL4AaLIvQT0TvuP8YyMVszfEMBk6N9zZouW+1J7BK12oPolZpWzsvXmQknYhChJh0bWC/UU3p/vAdl5vKK6BT4f9zHuUy1YKr4evCtHbivmsFZA/NTZjgO2bO7YJJdi0z25bv53/Tk+HfFbMsg6EVHPO2eS/w= In-Reply-To: <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:55 +0200, 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? Umm ... what's this process, the drivers/staging? > > Arnd