Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:21:19 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:16, Roland Dreier wrote: > Lee> For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!), > Lee> but it probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can > Lee> just look at another filesystem that has proper locking. > > Fixing up a filesystem's write locking doesn't sound like a very good > newbie project to me. >
Exactly, the point isn't to get them to fix it, but as a way to learn the internals of Linux, with the side benefit that someone might propose a correct fix. Also, many people might be new to Linux kernel hacking but are knowledgeable re: operating systems. Just a thought.
Lee
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