Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/16/2010 10:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 September 2010 19:49:53 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> On 09/16/2010 10:46 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>> autofs4 uses the BKL only to guard its ioctl operations.
> >>> This can be trivially converted to use a mutex, as we have
> >>> done with most device drivers before.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  fs/autofs4/root.c |   12 +++++++-----
> >>>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> You may want to Cc: the maintainer, Ian Kent.
> > 
> > Ah, sorry about this. I looked at the wrong MAINTAINERS entry.
> > 
> > I also forgot to Cc you about autofs3, adding more to the confusion. ;)
> > 
> > Do you think the time has come to move autofs3 to drivers/staging
> > as we deprecate the BKL?
> > 
> 
> I'm leaving that up to Ian.  I have offered for years to just plain kill
> off autofs3.

Yeah, my bad, again.
Now I want to wait for David Howells VFS automount series, which we're
working on now, since that will be a significant change.

> 
> 	-hpa