From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:50:49 +0200 Message-ID: <201009171550.49282.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> <201009171245.41930.arnd@arndb.de> <20100917133231.GA9411@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100917133231.GA9411@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , Jan Kara , codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Mikulas Patocka , Trond Myklebust , Petr Vandrovec , Anders Larsen , 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 Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super > > Err, no. lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL. We've > managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems > and now need to get rid of those users. Please don't add any new ones. Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach? Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754467Ab0IQNu7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:50:59 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:56531 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751948Ab0IQNu6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:50:58 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:50:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.35-16-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , Jan Kara , codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Mikulas Patocka , Trond Myklebust , Petr Vandrovec , Anders Larsen , 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 References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> <201009171245.41930.arnd@arndb.de> <20100917133231.GA9411@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100917133231.GA9411@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009171550.49282.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:dW4uImMohOMc0zVJk8vdhfJ487337W0C/zqVmDdO8qx CJuxULIrnI4I9UFYYNI7jQPKr8lVCebuHJHu6BWkt8rcGr0t3E Ud8V902w/md9ezmnxnemI3+L7LoeDJtqJFY20QZunijbErnj3h 1s2c5XKY5K3aYQMAVusbtTiPpJIr89bjyvEcuMbijCy0hepFGY BPOG45tVvcvcgwLi849iQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super > > Err, no. lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL. We've > managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems > and now need to get rid of those users. Please don't add any new ones. Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach? Arnd