From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753342Ab1AZM5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:57:45 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:65533 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751997Ab1AZM5o (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:57:44 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/20] staging/appletalk: remove the BKL Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:57:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.35-22-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@ghostprotocols.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1295993854-4971-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1295993854-4971-15-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20110125.142926.246535705.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20110125.142926.246535705.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101261357.38132.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Apn4EdYLnVpoI0vDWpnRmJuCGG94RUjGUwMG9Tj0C0v nPig9vhSsXKJ+K3Kva6jQSzZBFmv8Btn2E3BHeCIm9pjToWMuL SmgBfzkkcMgoDUlWeCG3wmOns32gM3+9COvji/onUxm05NTeTU LQ+DAPuQldrCv4ciLZzV06qyZqQcqioe61GwWYXYdvAh6Ek+pL FwuUoLrGgHl5jxy9E3Eyg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 25 January 2011, David Miller wrote: > If you're moving appletalk to staging because "nobody is motivated > enough to remove the BKL" and then you actually do the work to remove > the BKL, I really don't see any point in doing the whole staging > thing. > > We always keep an eye on every protocol that sits under the top-level > net/. Every socket API change propagates, as does every other > networking API change that matters for those protocols. Ok, fair enough. I've removed the "move to staging" patch now from my series. I'm going to need some help with testing, or at least thoroughly reviewing the patch, since I am not extremely confident in my own work there. Arnd