From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Josh Aas <josha@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:21:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092165679.920.5.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52n0126byf.fsf@topspin.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-10 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-10 16:58 bkl cleanup in do_sysctl Josh Aas
2004-08-10 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2004-08-10 18:51 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 19:16 ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-10 19:21 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-10 19:46 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-10 20:10 ` Lee Revell
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