Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:01:33 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 |
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:17:29AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2010 03:33:11 Ian Kent wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 19:55 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > 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? > > We use drivers/staging now both for getting code into the kernel > and for getting it out of there. Moving autofs3 to drivers/staging/autofs/ > would serve as a last warning to everyone using it, but users could > still use it while it's there. If anyone is interested, they can submit > fixes (BKL removal and whatever else is needed) to get it back into > the mainline. If it doesn't happen, Greg would finally remove it two > kernel releases later. > > My hope is that we can move all modules that still use the BKL after > 2.6.37 to drivers/staging, unless we have someone already working > on the patches.
That sounds fine with me, send me patches whenever you want to and I will gladly take them.
thanks,
greg k-h
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