> 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.

I won't be testing this in snapshots, because there is too much churn
in ports at the moment.

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