From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932574Ab0JDVGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:06:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49706 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756474Ab0JDVGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:06:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAA41B4.5030902@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:05:56 -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: Greg KH CC: Arnd Bergmann , 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> <4CAA3A69.9040709@zytor.com> <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20101004204057.GA28669@suse.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 01:40 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:34:49PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> 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. > > Give it the 6 months period to phase out of the kernel, I'll handle this > and if someone comes back and wants to maintain it, it can easily be > added back. > OK, feel free to add my Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin ... for both the move to staging and its eventual deletion. -hpa