From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754532Ab0IQREN (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:04:13 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:43394 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752314Ab0IQREJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:04:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:01:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Ian Kent , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Message-ID: <20100917170133.GA13570@kroah.com> References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> <1284687191.3083.8.camel@localhost> <201009170917.29522.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009170917.29522.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:17:29AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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. That sounds fine with me, send me patches whenever you want to and I will gladly take them. thanks, greg k-h