From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 11:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 11:06:54 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:11436 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 11:06:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD0047B.4060605@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:06:35 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guillaume Boissiere CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5] May 1, 2002 (BKL status) In-Reply-To: <3CCFBB21.9046.7889B0D2@localhost> 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 Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > There has also been a lot of work done by various people to > remove the BKL from many places, which leads to my question: > does anyone has a URL with a list of all the places where the > BKL should eventually be removed and who's working on it? > > It seems like it would be most useful if someone was willing > to maintain something like this, but it might be a lot of > work - I don't know how long the list would be... I may not be the leading BKL expert, but I play one on TV :) Perhaps one of the kernel-janitor people would like to assist me with this (cc'ing that list). I'd be willing to keep a web page to list all current BKL uses and keep track of them as they are removed/added Perhaps a set of web pages which resemble the directory structure of the kernel tree would be helpful?? Here's a good question for kernel-janitor, and anyone else who's interested, what format describing BKL use would most encourage you to go and remove it? We already have Rick Lindsley's Global spinlock list: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lse/locking_doc-2.4.16 . The BKL use in there is somewhat dated, but might be a good start. I have some awk scripts that I use on each new kernel release to check for new and removed uses of the BKL. I can adapt these to start checking new BK changesets for BKL changes. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com