netdev - Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:59 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	codalist@...EMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@...ux.kernel.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@...cvut.cz>,
	Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

> net/appletalk:
> net/ipx/af_ipx.c:
> net/irda/af_irda.c:
> 	Can probably be saved from retirement in drivers/staging if the
> 	maintainers still care.

IPX and Appletalk both have active users. They also look fairly fixable
as the lock_kernel just maps to a stack private mutex, or in several
cases can simply be dropped - its just a push down legacy.

IRDA may well be a candidate for staging
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