Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:55:48 +0200 |
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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 <arnd@arndb.de> > > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > > --- > > 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?
Arnd
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