[autofs] Remaining BKL users, what to do

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Sun Sep 19 18:25:02 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:32 +0200, 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/autofs:
> 	Pretty much dead, replaced by autofs4. I'd suggest moving this
> 	to drivers/staging in 2.6.37 and letting it die there.

Not sure that's what we need.
What actually needs to happen is that autofs4 needs to be renamed to
autofs.

Ian





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