From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:05:56 -0700 Message-ID: <4CAA41B4.5030902@zytor.com> References: <201010042228.10642.arnd@arndb.de> <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com> <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Greg KH Cc: Arnd Bergmann , autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ... for both the move to staging and its eventual deletion. -hpa