Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 21:20:19 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree | |
> This is all certainly doable, but it leaves me with one concern: there
> will be no signal to external module maintainers that the change needs
> to be made. So, beyond doubt, quite a few of them will just continue to
> be shipped unfixed - and they will still run. If any of them actually
> *need* the BKL, something awful may happen to somebody someday.
I now have a large patch and my full x86-32 build tree building without
->ioctl() in file_operations. Its a 350K patch and took all day so I'll
begin splitting it out and sending chunks to tree maintainers.
Alan
|  |