Re: BKL removal

From: Sean Neakums (sneakums@zork.net)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 18:42:24 EST


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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