From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.or
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:22:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110126022223.GB28072@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I've gone through all the code in the kernel that
> uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution
> that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them.
>
> The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is
> what I'd suggest we do:
>
> * Remove in 2.6.39:
> i830, autofs3, smbfs
I thought some people really wanted to keep i830. Or was that i810?
I'll drop autofs3 and smbfs, thanks.
> * Move to staging now, kill in 2.6.41 (or later):
> appletalk, hpfs
Sounds good to me.
> * Work around in an ugly way, but keep alive:
> * ufs, ipx, i810, cx25721
>
> * Fix properly:
> * usbip, go7007, adfs, x25
Thanks for the usbip and go7007 patches, I'll queue them up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 22:17 [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 09/20] hpfs: rename big kernel lock to hpfs_lock Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 10/20] hpfs: replace BKL with a global mutex Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 0:15 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <m2ipxc34aq.fsf@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-26 12:48 ` [PATCH v2] hpfs: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 11/20] hpfs: move to drivers/staging Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-07 16:17 ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-02-07 19:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 2:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-01-26 11:31 ` [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 11:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-01-26 13:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 16:24 ` Palash Bandyopadhyay
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-25 22:22 Arnd Bergmann
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