On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:25:09AM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote: > > For the next spin please don't push it down to filesystems that > > obviously don't need it at all and just mention them in the patch > > description. For filesystems like xfs and btrfs that never used the BKL > > at all that should make life a bit simpler. > > My plan was to remove the BKL in the obvious cases in the followup patches > that are also included in the series. So should I just merge the obvious stuff > into one patch? Christian Borntraeger was actually requesting the opposite. He > wants to be able to bisect it to the patch that is removing the BKL. That > would be much simple with many small patches I think. Yes, but for most filesystems the BKL never made sense. Anywhere where it's non-obvious (or the maintainer wants it) make it a separate patch, but don't bother for things like xfs or btrfs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
