From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:05:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAA41B4.5030902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de>
On 10/04/2010 01:40 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:34:49PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 10/04/2010 01:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> Nobody appears to be interested in fixing autofs3 bugs
>>> any more and it uses the BKL, which is going away.
>>>
>>> Move this to staging for retirement. Unless someone
>>> complains until 2.6.38, we can remove it for good.
>>>
>>> The include/linux/auto_fs.h header file is still used
>>> by autofs4, so it remains in place.
>>
>> I say we should just delete it.
>
> Give it the 6 months period to phase out of the kernel, I'll handle this
> and if someone comes back and wants to maintain it, it can easily be
> added back.
>
OK, feel free to add my
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
... for both the move to staging and its eventual deletion.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 20:28 [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-04 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-04 20:40 ` Greg KH
2010-10-04 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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