On Monday 06 December 2010 04:51:23 Ian Kent wrote: > With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the > ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex > needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call > back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion > status (via another ioctl). > > This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same > code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without > issue, as was the original intention. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> -- 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
