From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Kent Subject: Re: [autofs] Remaining BKL users, what to do Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:25:02 +0800 Message-ID: <1284945902.3095.4.camel@localhost> References: <201009161632.59210.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=M05GkC692pZStA3yuZ0tcokjVno=; b=SYiIoqkw1XgnzYrBMn8797DmdNmehJlAQ31jnbMMzVav5QmyMYeZCtV+JXR4dNK/USkQCN7ly+ssp1YpLfZhjPU7+3eMTXa6BBYOm7mBZRkwwDSwsm4M4o8uRL1JE9941xBo8SSDtW7m4h51ylHDH/2vTMBMELQ2iw4oO0QZqkM= In-Reply-To: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz , Jan Kara , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Anders Larsen , Trond Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Christoph Hellwig , Petr Vandrovec , Mikulas Patocka , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Evgeniy Dushistov , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Hendry , linux-media@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:32 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is > the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users: > ... > fs/autofs: > Pretty much dead, replaced by autofs4. I'd suggest moving this > to drivers/staging in 2.6.37 and letting it die there. Not sure that's what we need. What actually needs to happen is that autofs4 needs to be renamed to autofs. Ian