On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ian Kent <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the
> ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex
> needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call
> back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion
> status (via another ioctl).
>
> This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same
> code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without
> issue, as was the original intention.
Sign-off?
Linus
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