Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266237AbUAQXpV (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:45:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266239AbUAQXpV (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:45:21 -0500 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:20147 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266237AbUAQXpP (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:45:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] kill sleep_on From: David Woodhouse To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Manfred Spraul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040117201000.GL21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <40098251.2040009@colorfullife.com> <1074367701.9965.2.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <20040117201000.GL21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074383111.9965.4.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8.dwmw2.2) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:45:11 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 543 Lines: 17 On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 20:10 +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > AFAICS, _all_ uses of sleep_on() in drivers are broken in one way or another > and BKL won't help them. I think ext3 and nfs get away with it at the moment by using the BKL. It does want fixing though. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/