From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:22:23 +0800 Message-ID: <20110126022223.GB28072@suse.de> References: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Frederic Weisbecker , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Mikulas Patocka , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ian Kent , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, Nick Bowler , linux-x25@vger.kernel.org, Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ross Cohen , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Evgeniy Dushistov , Stuart Swales , Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , autofs@linux.kernel.org, Jeff Layton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Palash Bandyopadhyay , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is > what I'd suggest we do: > > * Remove in 2.6.39: > i830, autofs3, smbfs I thought some people really wanted to keep i830. Or was that i810? I'll drop autofs3 and smbfs, thanks. > * Move to staging now, kill in 2.6.41 (or later): > appletalk, hpfs Sounds good to me. > * Work around in an ugly way, but keep alive: > * ufs, ipx, i810, cx25721 > > * Fix properly: > * usbip, go7007, adfs, x25 Thanks for the usbip and go7007 patches, I'll queue them up. greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:22:23 +0800 Message-ID: <20110126022223.GB28072@suse.de> References: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Frederic Weisbecker , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Mikulas Patocka , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ian Kent , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, Nick Bowler , linux-x25@vger.kernel.org, Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ross Cohen , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Evgeniy Dushistov , Stuart Swales , Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , autofs@linux.kernel.org, Jeff Layton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Palash Bandyopadhyay , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: linux-cifs.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is > what I'd suggest we do: > > * Remove in 2.6.39: > i830, autofs3, smbfs I thought some people really wanted to keep i830. Or was that i810? I'll drop autofs3 and smbfs, thanks. > * Move to staging now, kill in 2.6.41 (or later): > appletalk, hpfs Sounds good to me. > * Work around in an ugly way, but keep alive: > * ufs, ipx, i810, cx25721 > > * Fix properly: > * usbip, go7007, adfs, x25 Thanks for the usbip and go7007 patches, I'll queue them up. greg k-h