Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753724Ab0KUOMy (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:12:54 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63110 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753421Ab0KUOMx (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:12:53 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BaK/s+cChDZ79/dykr2tuQFHEnpZWpxIJw0jnhmsVugaWCvZj6pRd4DdmpTxSR8OL6 VLIozSZNN5lc4JAum8w+N879ZZQoej1rTzEkeUverqt9hrhSpn85Fgg2Djxjc5lKBSQU vE7EITEHu9ttv54Dn/or2TWwtrvy92RbMSdjE= Message-ID: <4CE928DD.2010309@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:12:45 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jan Kara , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Laredo , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Alessio Igor Bogani Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] BKL removal follow-up References: <1290007619-5787-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20101118233439.GB5004@quack.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 28 On 11/19/2010 01:40 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Jan Kara wrote: >> >> Just for info, UDF BKL removal patches seem to work fine but I want to >> give them some final SMP testing on Monday before pushing them to -next. >> I'm not sure how much people hurry with disabling the lock so if I should >> push them ASAP or whether the next merge window is fine... > > I don't think I can reasonably do it in 37, we're late enough in the > -rc series. So UDF and really saying 'n' to BKL by default will have > to be for the next merge window. > > I hate to do it, but I'd be too nervous about it any other way. > > Linus Could it not default to "n" but be SELECTed by the like of UDF. Or that too big of a Kconfig change for 37-rcX? I understand it does not really buy us anything for distro's with allmodconfig style, but it should help with defconfig on all the other ARCH's. Thanks Boaz -- 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/