Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

[Alan Cox]

> 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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