Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl

Lee Revell
2004-08-10T19:21:18Z

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:16, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Lee> For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!),
> Lee> but it probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can
> Lee> just look at another filesystem that has proper locking.
>
> Fixing up a filesystem's write locking doesn't sound like a very good
> newbie project to me.
>

Exactly, the point isn't to get them to fix it, but as a way to learn
the internals of Linux, with the side benefit that someone might propose
a correct fix. Also, many people might be new to Linux kernel hacking
but are knowledgeable re: operating systems. Just a thought.

Lee