From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:50:49 +0200
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On Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super
> 
> Err, no.  lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL.  We've
> managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems
> and now need to get rid of those users.  Please don't add any new ones.

Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday
then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach?

	Arnd