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From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] BKL removal follow-up
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:23:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101222152309.GA30670@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012212354.06895.arnd@arndb.de>

On 2010-12-21 23:54 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 22 November 2010 16:17:23 Nick Bowler wrote:
> > On 2010-11-21 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Yes, I'd be ok with UDF doing a "select BKL" along with a "default n"
> > > for BKL itself.
> > > 
> > > I think UDF currently is the only sane reason to have BKL enabled any
> > > more, and yes, it would probably make it easier to configure things.
> > 
> > UFS (which I use) also relies on BKL.
> 
> Would you mind running a kernel with this patch and lockdep enabled then?

I will definitely try it, but I probably won't get around to it before
the new year.

Thanks,

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-22 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 15:26 [PATCH 0/7] BKL removal follow-up Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 1/7] staging/stradis: mark as "depends on BKL" Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 16:03   ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] drm/i810: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 3/7] BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 4/7] BKL: remove references to lock_kernel from comments Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:40   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 5/7] BKL: disable by default Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] BKL: mark lock_kernel as deprecated Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-17 15:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] BKL: move CONFIG_BKL to staging Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 0/7] BKL removal follow-up Jan Kara
2010-11-18 23:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-21 14:12     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-21 17:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-22 15:17         ` Nick Bowler
2010-12-21 22:54           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-22 15:23             ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2010-12-24 11:04             ` Evgeniy Dushistov
2010-12-30 14:58               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-30 15:16                 ` Evgeniy Dushistov

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