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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