Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 02:07:46 EST


On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your
> series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists
> upstream. Unless there is a better way?

Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e.
one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it
now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before).
That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid
more conflicts ...

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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