From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863Ab0LFEFy (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:05:54 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:39281 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752331Ab0LFEFx (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:05:53 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: WLQ5PgtGW5cxPRcIk9FD8HUqhuAGpxU2lCkrWWx7Mybq 1291608352 Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex From: Ian Kent To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel , Kernel Mailing List , Arnd Bergmann , autofs mailing list In-Reply-To: References: <20101206035123.28966.79954.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:05:46 +0800 Message-ID: <1291608346.9376.7.camel@perseus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 (2.32.1-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 19:55 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ian Kent wrote: > > With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the > > ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex > > needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call > > back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion > > status (via another ioctl). > > > > This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same > > code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without > > issue, as was the original intention. > > Sign-off? Oops, sorry. Would you like me to re-send after asking those concerned if I can add their sign-off, and adding mine of course? Ian