From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:55:48 +0200 Message-ID: <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , autofs@linux.kernel.org 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? Arnd