From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:04:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20100916150459.GA8437@quack.suse.cz> References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mikulas Patocka , Trond Myklebust , Petr Vandrovec , Anders Larsen , Jan Kara , Evgeniy Dushistov , Ingo Molnar , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Hendry On Thu 16-09-10 16:32:59, 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/ncpfs: > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left. I think some people still use this... > fs/udf: > Not completely trivial, but probably necessary to fix. Project web > site is dead, I hope that Jan Kara can be motivated to fix it though. Yeah, I can have a look at it. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755470Ab0IPPFz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:05:55 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44023 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752531Ab0IPPFw (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:05:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:04:59 +0200 From: Jan Kara To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mikulas Patocka , Trond Myklebust , Petr Vandrovec , Anders Larsen , Jan Kara , Evgeniy Dushistov , Ingo Molnar , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Hendry Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Message-ID: <20100916150459.GA8437@quack.suse.cz> References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 16-09-10 16:32:59, 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/ncpfs: > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left. I think some people still use this... > fs/udf: > Not completely trivial, but probably necessary to fix. Project web > site is dead, I hope that Jan Kara can be motivated to fix it though. Yeah, I can have a look at it. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR