On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

I've gone through all the code in the kernel that
uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution
that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them.

The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is
what I'd suggest we do:

* Remove in 2.6.39:
   i830, autofs3, smbfs

I thought some people really wanted to keep i830.  Or was that i810?

 I'll drop autofs3 and smbfs, thanks.

* Move to staging now, kill in 2.6.41 (or later):
   appletalk, hpfs

Sounds good to me.

* Work around in an ugly way, but keep alive:
   * ufs, ipx, i810, cx25721

* Fix properly:
   * usbip, go7007, adfs, x25

Thanks for the usbip and go7007 patches, I'll queue them up.

greg k-h