Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:20:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 |
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On 09/16/2010 10:55 AM, 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? >
I'm leaving that up to Ian. I have offered for years to just plain kill off autofs3.
-hpa
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