Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

[Linus Torvalds]

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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