From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753804Ab0IQBdS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:33:18 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59339 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752085Ab0IQBdR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:33:17 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: k4cJ/m3814ATUDvckiwMU058GbGTmPltWjmuDl5fjD82 1284687196 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 From: Ian Kent To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:33:11 +0800 Message-ID: <1284687191.3083.8.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 19:55 +0200, 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? Umm ... what's this process, the drivers/staging? > > Arnd