From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH] Push BKL into ->permission() calls Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:51:18 -0600 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020618075118.GN22427@clusterfs.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, braam@clusterfs.com, urban@teststation.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Paul Menage Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Jun 18, 2002 00:27 -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > This patch (against 2.5.22) removes the BKL from around the call > to i_op->permission() in fs/namei.c, and pushes the BKL into those > filesystems that have permission() methods that require it: > > Out-of-tree filesystems that have their own permission() method will > need updating if they're relying on the BKL. Please update Documentation/filesystems/porting with this info as part of your patch. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/