Remaining BKL users, what to do

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Thu Sep 16 08:04:59 PDT 2010


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...

> fs/udf:
> 	Not completely trivial, but probably necessary to fix. Project web
> 	site is dead, I hope that Jan Kara can be motivated to fix it though.
  Yeah, I can have a look at it.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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