Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:16, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Lee> For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!),
>     Lee> but it probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can
>     Lee> just look at another filesystem that has proper locking.
> 
> Fixing up a filesystem's write locking doesn't sound like a very good
> newbie project to me.
> 

Exactly, the point isn't to get them to fix it, but as a way to learn
the internals of Linux, with the side benefit that someone might propose
a correct fix.  Also, many people might be new to Linux kernel hacking
but are knowledgeable re: operating systems.  Just a thought.

Lee

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