Re: Remaining BKL users, what to do

From: Alan Cox <redacted>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:59 +0100

quoted

net/appletalk:
net/ipx/af_ipx.c:
net/irda/af_irda.c:
	Can probably be saved from retirement in drivers/staging if the
	maintainers still care.

IPX and Appletalk both have active users. They also look fairly fixable
as the lock_kernel just maps to a stack private mutex, or in several
cases can simply be dropped - its just a push down legacy.

I'll take a stab at IPX and Appletalk.