From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:52:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:52:05 -0500 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:2490 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:51:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3C856818.4050005@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:51:36 -0800 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020227 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Viro wrote: > Denied. You can trivially do that in ext2_read_inode() and ext2_new_inode(). Good point. That makes it much easier. > ext2 patches _MUST_ get testing in 2.5 before they can go into 2.4. At > the very least a month, preferably - two. Until then consider them vetoed > for 2.4, no matter how BKL brigade feels about their crusade. ChangeSet@1.290 2002-02-11 21:26:50-08:00 viro@psu.edu So, it has been almost a month. Do you plan to port these changes back to 2.4 yourself? -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com