Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

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Hi,

On 16 Sep 2010, at 16:04, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 16-09-10 16:32:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The big kernel lock is gone from almost all code in linux-next, this is
>> the status of what I think will happen to the remaining users:
> ...
>> fs/ncpfs:
>> 	Should be fixable if Petr still cares about it. Otherwise suggest
>> 	moving to drivers/staging if there are no users left.
>  I think some people still use this...

Yes, indeed.  Netware is still alive (unfortunately!) and ncpfs is used in a lot of Universities here in the UK at least (we use it about a thousand workstations and servers here at Cambridge University!).

Best regards,

	Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

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