Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 | | From | Ian Kent <> | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:33:11 +0800 |
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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:55 +0200, 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 <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?
Umm ... what's this process, the drivers/staging?
> > Arnd
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