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

[Sage Weil]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> 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 ...

This sounds like the easiest solution to me.  Something as simple as

#define lock_flocks lock_kernel
#define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel

in fs.h?
sage
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