From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757190Ab0JDUsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:48:12 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47202 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752734Ab0JDUsK (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:48:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:40:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging Message-ID: <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de> References: <201010042228.10642.arnd@arndb.de> <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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