Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:47:43 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do |
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > fs/freevxfs: > Uses the BKL in readdir and lookup, should be easy to fix. Christoph?
Can simply be dropped. Ditto for ->put_super and the not yet done ->get_sb pushdown. It's a trivial read-only filesystem with no state of it's own.
> > fs/hpfs: > Looks fixable, if anyone cares. Maybe it's time for retirement in > drivers/staging though. The web page only has a Link to the > linux-2.2 version.
Di you ping Mikulas? He's not done too lately but at least ACKed a few patches.
> fs/ncpfs: > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left.
Didn't he fix it recently?
> fs/qnx4: > Should be easy to fix, there are only a few places in the code that > use the BKL. Anders?
Another trivial read-only fs. Can be trivially dropped.
> fs/ufs: > Evgeniy Dushistov is maintaining this, I hope he can take care of > getting rid of the BKL in UFS.
Did you ping him. Shouldn't be too hard despite your probably unfixable comment that somehow made it to linux-next.
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