Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46489 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754645Ab0KURxw (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:53:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CE928DD.2010309@gmail.com> References: <1290007619-5787-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20101118233439.GB5004@quack.suse.cz> <4CE928DD.2010309@gmail.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:45:12 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] BKL removal follow-up To: Boaz Harrosh 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 11/19/2010 01:40 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> 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. > > 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. Yes, I'd be ok with UDF doing a "select BKL" along with a "default n" for BKL itself. I think UDF currently is the only sane reason to have BKL enabled any more, and yes, it would probably make it easier to configure things. Tested patch? Linus