From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755953Ab0IPTVs (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:21:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40718 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754518Ab0IPTVr (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:21:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4C926DFC.1090600@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:20:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , autofs@linux.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> <4C9258C1.3060906@zytor.com> <201009161955.48854.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201009161955.48854.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 10:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 19:49:53 H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> 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. > > Ah, sorry about this. I looked at the wrong MAINTAINERS entry. > > I also forgot to Cc you about autofs3, adding more to the confusion. ;) > > Do you think the time has come to move autofs3 to drivers/staging > as we deprecate the BKL? > I'm leaving that up to Ian. I have offered for years to just plain kill off autofs3. -hpa