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

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:47:43 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> fs/freevxfs:
> 	Uses the BKL in readdir and lookup, should be easy to fix. Christoph?

Can simply be dropped.  Ditto for ->put_super and the not yet done
->get_sb pushdown.  It's a trivial read-only filesystem with no state
of it's own.

> 
> fs/hpfs:
> 	Looks fixable, if anyone cares. Maybe it's time for retirement in
> 	drivers/staging though. The web page only has a Link to the
> 	linux-2.2 version.

Di you ping Mikulas?  He's not done too lately but at least ACKed a few
patches.

> fs/ncpfs:
> 	Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest
> 	moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left.

Didn't he fix it recently?

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

Another trivial read-only fs.  Can be trivially dropped.

> fs/ufs:
> 	Evgeniy Dushistov is maintaining this, I hope he can take care of
> 	getting rid of the BKL in UFS.

Did you ping him.  Shouldn't be too hard despite your probably unfixable
comment that somehow made it to linux-next.

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