* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It would be sweet to have them use private mutexes for the job
> > instead (although even then it probably wouldn't be a straight
> > conversion)...
>
> I tried a quick conversion of reiser3 at the time, but it really wants
> a recursive lock and I couldn't be bothered to fix a 'legacy'
> filesystem so I just gave up and converted the filesystem to XFS.
as long as the only requirement is recursion, and not any of the other
BKL properties, that could be wrapped. I guess fixing the TTY code to
have no BKL dependencies has a higher chance of success - given that
Alan is working on it :-)
Ingo
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