Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - remove ioctl mutex

Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-06T08:41:46Z

On Monday 06 December 2010 04:51:23 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.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>