From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:40:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com>
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:34:49PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 01:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Nobody appears to be interested in fixing autofs3 bugs
> > any more and it uses the BKL, which is going away.
> >
> > Move this to staging for retirement. Unless someone
> > complains until 2.6.38, we can remove it for good.
> >
> > The include/linux/auto_fs.h header file is still used
> > by autofs4, so it remains in place.
>
> I say we should just delete it.
Give it the 6 months period to phase out of the kernel, I'll handle this
and if someone comes back and wants to maintain it, it can easily be
added back.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 20:28 [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-04 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-04 20:40 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-04 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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