From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758041Ab0JUNh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:37:57 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:59769 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756998Ab0JUNhz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:37:55 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:38:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.35-16-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Evgeniy Dushistov , Jan Kara References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> <20101021124743.GC17654@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20101021124743.GC17654@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010211538.24733.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:FAqivy3Y5shVo0GCbZY6wBsfxd18Rc51v++ypN3LaLi JyYOoIEty15fQGiS2Ex2wiWzjZt8ue9CXE/zxV/JTEKvPGLXEo u3qY3PTa6rwljQpipbdk9n+iGCf1DgRPTFPSRPCLF2zVPcEXJK 0JdlFl8/db2EawekGV2JemaSBZftL0UTEvUU4jGqTIH02ktev9 jffOwUJJFkpWZ5o1Ck+bw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 October 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > fs/freevxfs: > > Uses the BKL in readdir and lookup, should be easy to fix. Christoph? > > Can simply be dropped. Ditto for ->put_super and the not yet done > ->get_sb pushdown. It's a trivial read-only filesystem with no state > of it's own. Cool, thanks for looking at it. I'll add a patch to my series. > > > > fs/hpfs: > > Looks fixable, if anyone cares. Maybe it's time for retirement in > > drivers/staging though. The web page only has a Link to the > > linux-2.2 version. > > Di you ping Mikulas? He's not done too lately but at least ACKed a few > patches. He was on Cc on all these mails, maybe he got overwhelmed by the amount of mail. > > fs/ncpfs: > > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left. > > Didn't he fix it recently? Yes, see my update "[v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do". Note that the mail you just replied to is a month old. > > fs/qnx4: > > Should be easy to fix, there are only a few places in the code that > > use the BKL. Anders? > > Another trivial read-only fs. Can be trivially dropped. ok. > > fs/ufs: > > Evgeniy Dushistov is maintaining this, I hope he can take care of > > getting rid of the BKL in UFS. > > Did you ping him. Shouldn't be too hard despite your probably unfixable > comment that somehow made it to linux-next. He was on Cc as well. I'll update the comment and others that have become obsolete now. I didn't realize that this was a read-only fs, which certainly makes it easier. Thanks, Arnd