Re: [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: Replace BKL in mount/umountsyscalls with a mutex

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 13:31:54 EST


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And I know we had patches for file locking BKL-removal at some point. What
> happened to them? Were they just broken, or forgotten, or waiting in Jon's
> tree, or what?

Not in my tree, I've not seen them. I could maybe take a look at that,
I've just about recovered from my fasync experience...:)

jon
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