Re: [PATCH 04/12] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 13:56:15 EST


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@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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?

Arnd
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