On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 19:55 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ian Kent <[email protected]> wrote:
> > With the recent changes to remove the BKL a mutex was added to the
> > ioctl entry point for calls to the old ioctl interface. This mutex
> > needs to be removed because of the need for the expire ioctl to call
> > back to the daemon to perform a umount and receive a completion
> > status (via another ioctl).
> >
> > This should be fine as the new ioctl interface uses much of the same
> > code and it has been used without a mutex for around a year without
> > issue, as was the original intention.
> 
> Sign-off?

Oops, sorry.
Would you like me to re-send after asking those concerned if I can add
their sign-off, and adding mine of course?

Ian


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