linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: remove BKL uses

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Message-Id: <201007051650.23761.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:50:23 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: remove BKL uses

On Sunday 04 July 2010, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> Nilfs has BKL uses in its put_super and remount functions, but none of
> them are necessary, just came from earlier push downs.  This
> eliminates the BKL uses from nilfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>

This looks good, but there is a another patch series pushing the BKL
into the get_sb and fill_super operations, which should be the final
pushdown for file systems. I wonder if there is a way to find a
shortcut on this so we don't need to add it first just to have you
go through the effort of removing it again.

	Arnd
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