Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:42 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
       Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>,
       Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: Replace BKL in mount/umount
 syscalls with a mutex
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And I know we had patches for file locking BKL-removal at some point. What 
> happened to them? Were they just broken, or forgotten, or waiting in Jon's 
> tree, or what?

Not in my tree, I've not seen them.  I could maybe take a look at that,
I've just about recovered from my fasync experience...:)

jon
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