Re: [PATCH 3/6] autofs/autofs4: move compat_ioctl handling into fs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Ian Kent wrote:
> So it makes no difference whether the patches are combined, if it breaks
> autofs then it probably won't be fixed but it may cause the replacement
> to happen sooner.

Well, the main point of applying the patch now is to avoid breaking the
autofs module when we remove the .ioctl operation.

> As far as the patch goes that should be fine and we should be able to
> remove the BKL from autofs4 soon after but I'm not brave enough to try
> just yet.

Well, the only use of the BKL in autofs4 is in the ioctl function. You
can probably replace that trivially with a global mutex, but from a quick
inspection, even that should not be needed: The only ioctl command in
autofs4 that does not already seem to have adequate locking is
autofs4_get_set_timeout, which is even easier to change and still harmless
if you don't do it at all.

	Arnd
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