Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 2002 00:42:24 +0100 | From | Sean Neakums <> | Subject | Re: BKL removal |
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commence Thunder from the hill quotation: > We should rename it to something that actually tells you what it does. > BTW, when was lock_kernel()? It must be really old if it still locked the > whole kernel.
It was added during the 1.3 development phase. Dave's paper in the OLS proceedings (that was yours, wasn't it?) covers it pretty nicely (at least to my kernel-ignorant eyes).
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