Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Sep 17 2010 - 09:51:04 EST


On Friday 17 September 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > ncpfs: replace BKL with lock_super
>
> Err, no. lock_super is just as much on it's way out as the BKL. We've
> managed to move it down from the VFS into a few remaining filesystems
> and now need to get rid of those users. Please don't add any new ones.

Ok. I guess that's also a NAK for my the isofs patch I posted yesterday
then. Do you have any suggestions for an alternative approach?

Arnd
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