Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:01:59 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/20] BKL: That's all, folks |
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* Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Yay! > > > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > > Nice to see it gone - it seemed such a good idea in Linux 1.3
No need to feel bad about it - there was simply no other way to do it: the BKL basically represented all the single-CPU assumptions that were built into the kernel from 0.10 up to 1.3 (and at least as much new BKL depending code going forward as well ...).
Every last such piece of code had to be eliminated. So the BKL represented the status quo - and eliminating the status quo is always hard, as the code that remains became less and less important :-)
Thanks,
Ingo
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