Re: [PATCH 0/5] ext2: Preparation to remove BKL

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:31:54AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 12 April 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > It looks like this is all about .35 material.
> > 
> > This is going to be hard to have a separate tree to pushdown/remove
> > the bkl in the mount path if it depends on the ext2 tree.
> 
> The pushdown can be in a separate tree that can be merged independently,
> just the final patch removing it in do_new_mount needs to wait
> for everything else to get merged first.


Right.



> We have some other patches,
> in particular the one that makes CONFIG_BKL modular that have to
> wait for other patches and should probably just be applied separately
> rather than merged from a bisectable git tree.
> 
> 	Arnd


Ok, no problem then.

Thanks.

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