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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:41:25 +0100
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To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>

On Monday 06 December 2010 04:51:23 Ian Kent wrote:
> With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the
> ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex
> needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call
> back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion
> status (via another ioctl).
> 
> This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same
> code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without
> issue, as was the original intention.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>