From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752604Ab0IQBb0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:26 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:36048 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752186Ab0IQBbZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:25 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Ob+1pS+EF5skAY2z7R2LJtIJpdhXF/qrotze7dmkMHE9 1284687084 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 From: Ian Kent To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:31:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1284687079.3083.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > >>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > >>> --- > >>> 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