Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761502AbYFES0v (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:26:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754063AbYFES0h (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:26:37 -0400 Received: from smtp.movial.fi ([62.236.91.34]:51843 "EHLO smtp.movial.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753828AbYFES0g (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:26:36 -0400 From: Dmitri Vorobiev To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:26:35 +0300 Message-Id: <1212690397-25693-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.5.GIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 16 Hi Andrew, This removes quite a few instances of BKL usage in the bfs driver. Given the purpose and the user base of this driver, I do not believe that a finer-granularity lock than the big fat filesystem-wide mutex I have implemented here is needed. Please consider. Thanks, Dmitri -- 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/