Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:59 +0100

>> 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.

I'll take a stab at IPX and Appletalk.
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