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

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Message-Id: <201009171656.56615.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:56:56 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	codalist@...a.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@...ux.kernel.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.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>,
	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 Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Just add a per-sb mutex inside the filesystem.  Given that lock_super
> isn't used by the VFS anymore that's actually equivalent.

Ok, thanks for the hint. I'll fix that for isofs.

	Arnd
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