From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756749Ab0JUMrr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:47:47 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52397 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752465Ab0JUMrq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:47:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:47:43 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka , Evgeniy Dushistov Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do Message-ID: <20101021124743.GC17654@infradead.org> References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > fs/freevxfs: > Uses the BKL in readdir and lookup, should be easy to fix. Christoph? Can simply be dropped. Ditto for ->put_super and the not yet done ->get_sb pushdown. It's a trivial read-only filesystem with no state of it's own. > > fs/hpfs: > Looks fixable, if anyone cares. Maybe it's time for retirement in > drivers/staging though. The web page only has a Link to the > linux-2.2 version. Di you ping Mikulas? He's not done too lately but at least ACKed a few patches. > fs/ncpfs: > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left. Didn't he fix it recently? > fs/qnx4: > Should be easy to fix, there are only a few places in the code that > use the BKL. Anders? Another trivial read-only fs. Can be trivially dropped. > fs/ufs: > Evgeniy Dushistov is maintaining this, I hope he can take care of > getting rid of the BKL in UFS. Did you ping him. Shouldn't be too hard despite your probably unfixable comment that somehow made it to linux-next.