From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932727Ab0JDUfB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:35:01 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43832 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932719Ab0JDUfA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:35:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:34:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: gregkh@suse.de, autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] autofs3: move to drivers/staging References: <201010042228.10642.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201010042228.10642.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/04/2010 01:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Nobody appears to be interested in fixing autofs3 bugs > any more and it uses the BKL, which is going away. > > Move this to staging for retirement. Unless someone > complains until 2.6.38, we can remove it for good. > > The include/linux/auto_fs.h header file is still used > by autofs4, so it remains in place. I say we should just delete it. -hpa