Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:31:19 +0800 |
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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 12:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
Yeah, my bad, again. Now I want to wait for David Howells VFS automount series, which we're working on now, since that will be a significant change.
> > -hpa
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