On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > fs/freevxfs: > Uses the BKL in readdir and lookup, should be easy to fix. Christoph? Can simply be dropped. Ditto for ->put_super and the not yet done ->get_sb pushdown. It's a trivial read-only filesystem with no state of it's own. > > fs/hpfs: > Looks fixable, if anyone cares. Maybe it's time for retirement in > drivers/staging though. The web page only has a Link to the > linux-2.2 version. Di you ping Mikulas? He's not done too lately but at least ACKed a few patches. > fs/ncpfs: > Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest > moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left. Didn't he fix it recently? > fs/qnx4: > Should be easy to fix, there are only a few places in the code that > use the BKL. Anders? Another trivial read-only fs. Can be trivially dropped. > fs/ufs: > Evgeniy Dushistov is maintaining this, I hope he can take care of > getting rid of the BKL in UFS. Did you ping him. Shouldn't be too hard despite your probably unfixable comment that somehow made it to linux-next. -- 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