netdev - Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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Message-Id: <16843727-8A3D-48FF-9021-E0AD99C23E18@cam.ac.uk>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:26:24 +0100
From:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 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>,
	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

Hi,

On 16 Sep 2010, at 16:04, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 16-09-10 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/ncpfs:
>> 	Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest
>> 	moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left.
>  I think some people still use this...

Yes, indeed.  Netware is still alive (unfortunately!) and ncpfs is used in a lot of Universities here in the UK at least (we use it about a thousand workstations and servers here at Cambridge University!).

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

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