linux-kernel - Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:09:10 +0200
From:	Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	codalist@...a.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>, 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

On 2010-09-16 16:32:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is
> the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users:

> fs/qnx4:
> 	Should be easy to fix, there are only a few places in the code that
> 	use the BKL. Anders?

Will do.

Cheers
Anders

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