On Thursday 21 October 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Cool, thanks for looking at it. I'll add a patch to my series. > > > > 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. He was on Cc on all these mails, maybe he got overwhelmed by the amount of mail. > > 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? Yes, see my update "[v2] Remaining BKL users, what to do". Note that the mail you just replied to is a month old. > > 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. ok. > > 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. He was on Cc as well. I'll update the comment and others that have become obsolete now. I didn't realize that this was a read-only fs, which certainly makes it easier. Thanks, Arnd -- 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
