Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:08:23 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:59 +0100
>> net/appletalk: >> net/ipx/af_ipx.c: >> net/irda/af_irda.c: >> Can probably be saved from retirement in drivers/staging if the >> maintainers still care. > > IPX and Appletalk both have active users. They also look fairly fixable > as the lock_kernel just maps to a stack private mutex, or in several > cases can simply be dropped - its just a push down legacy.
I'll take a stab at IPX and Appletalk.
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