From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754532Ab0IQHRh (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:17:37 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:58532 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212Ab0IQHRg (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:17:36 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Ian Kent Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:17:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-rc3-next-20100910+; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org, Greg KH References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> <1284687191.3083.8.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1284687191.3083.8.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009170917.29522.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:dz+pk0bAa3XOV951+uNBnvkMNatOOhhgm4XmRaXjxZy tYgmgtyJtZoE2nyzOAISZP2Q4/GPBg6OD4QGVNAxkYYSmV0FFv 1f7LdKiEpMpHCaGGEG0Jbz8ggxzP88zVDw9jiZjjqP3wayCTpJ LjdrJQ8RgcYZnD0tzfh//Tl06PJc426cfKzPmWtUz4LUsmRjGy WkyzRmua0d2sh+nU6GT8A== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 17 September 2010 03:33:11 Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:55 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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? We use drivers/staging now both for getting code into the kernel and for getting it out of there. Moving autofs3 to drivers/staging/autofs/ would serve as a last warning to everyone using it, but users could still use it while it's there. If anyone is interested, they can submit fixes (BKL removal and whatever else is needed) to get it back into the mainline. If it doesn't happen, Greg would finally remove it two kernel releases later. My hope is that we can move all modules that still use the BKL after 2.6.37 to drivers/staging, unless we have someone already working on the patches. Arnd