Martin Natano wrote:
> It is time for the lockmgr() api to die. The api is only used by
> filesystems, where it is a trivial change to use rrw locks instead. All
> it needs is LK_* defines for the RW_* flags. (See the sys/lock.h hunk in
> the diff below.)
> 
> The ffs regress tests display the same number of fail/ok results before
> and after applying diff below, and I have done some manual testing with
> various filesystems on amd64 and macppc.
> 
> Again, the purpose is to make filesystem code less scary and more
> comprehensible.

Yes, I'm concerned this needs lots of testing, but it is the right thing to
do.

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