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SubjectRe: [PATCH] remove BKL from driverfs
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>CC'ing Al for comments...
>>
>>Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>>bleah, a proliferation of a zillion little spinlocks all across the
>>>kernel is not my idea of fun :(
>>
>>A zillion locks each with a single purpose is a lot more fun than 1
>>lock with a zillion different uses.
>
> Wrong. It's fun if you are into taking a turd and turning it into a thin film
> spread over all available surfaces. The former has a chance to be removed.
> The latter is hopeless.
>
> "Zillion little spinlocks" means that kernel is scaled into oblivion.
> Literally. If you want to play with resulting body - feel free, but
> I like it less kinky.
>

So, can we remove the spread in this case?

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Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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