2010/7/6 Ian Kent <[email protected]>: > > > On 06/07/2010, at 7:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Well, the only use of the BKL in autofs4 is in the ioctl function. You >> can probably replace that trivially with a global mutex, but from a quick >> inspection, even that should not be needed: The only ioctl command in >> autofs4 that does not already seem to have adequate locking is >> autofs4_get_set_timeout, which is even easier to change and still harmless >> if you don't do it at all. > > That's right of course. > > Even this shouldn't be a problem as it is called by a single instance, per > autofs mount, of the daemon only. A fair amount of effort has gone into > trying to make the autofs4 module independent of the BKL over time. However I > would still rather not do the change concurrently with the ioctl changes. > > Ian
In any case, can we let you handle this patch for 2.6.36 inclusion? Thanks. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
