linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] ext2: Preparation to remove BKL

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Message-Id: <201004131131.54650.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:31:54 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	tytso@....edu,
	"Linux-Kernel Mailinglist" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ext2: Preparation to remove BKL

On Monday 12 April 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> It looks like this is all about .35 material.
> 
> This is going to be hard to have a separate tree to pushdown/remove
> the bkl in the mount path if it depends on the ext2 tree.

The pushdown can be in a separate tree that can be merged independently,
just the final patch removing it in do_new_mount needs to wait
for everything else to get merged first. We have some other patches,
in particular the one that makes CONFIG_BKL modular that have to
wait for other patches and should probably just be applied separately
rather than merged from a bisectable git tree.

	Arnd
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