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

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Message-ID: <1284945902.3095.4.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:25:02 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	codalist@...EMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, autofs@...ux.kernel.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@...cvut.cz>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [autofs] Remaining BKL users, what to do

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:32 +0200, 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/autofs:
> 	Pretty much dead, replaced by autofs4. I'd suggest moving this
> 	to drivers/staging in 2.6.37 and letting it die there.

Not sure that's what we need.
What actually needs to happen is that autofs4 needs to be renamed to
autofs.

Ian



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