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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:55:48 +0200
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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?

	Arnd