Remaining BKL users, what to do
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Sep 16 08:07:59 PDT 2010
> net/appletalk:
> net/ipx/af_ipx.c:
> net/irda/af_irda.c:
> Can probably be saved from retirement in drivers/staging if the
> maintainers still care.
IPX and Appletalk both have active users. They also look fairly fixable
as the lock_kernel just maps to a stack private mutex, or in several
cases can simply be dropped - its just a push down legacy.
IRDA may well be a candidate for staging
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