| | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 15:16:07 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree |
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> The goal less being to get rid of BKL in old drivers, but not
> requiring BKL in new drivers. Basically all BKL assumptions
> in interfaces really should go.
No, we really do want to get rid of BKL in old drivers too. Or at least in
the interfaces.
Linus
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