From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755842Ab0IPRuF (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:50:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:32868 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755572Ab0IPRuD (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:50:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:49:53 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 References: <1284659185-8942-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <1284659185-8942-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/16/2010 10:46 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > autofs4 uses the BKL only to guard its ioctl operations. > This can be trivially converted to use a mutex, as we have > done with most device drivers before. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > --- > fs/autofs4/root.c | 12 +++++++----- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) You may want to Cc: the maintainer, Ian Kent. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.