From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:20:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , autofs@linux.kernel.org On 09/16/2010 10:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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? > I'm leaving that up to Ian. I have offered for years to just plain kill off autofs3. -hpa