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Message-Id: <201009171550.49282.arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:50:49 +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:
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super
>
> Err, no. lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL. We've
> managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems
> and now need to get rid of those users. Please don't add any new ones.
Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday
then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach?
Arnd
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