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Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Posted Apr 29, 2010 7:26 UTC (Thu) by cyrus (guest, #36858)
Parent article: Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

What about the BKL usage in the TTY-Layer? Hasn't Alan Cox promised to get rid of it for years?

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Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Posted Apr 29, 2010 18:15 UTC (Thu) by chad.netzer (✭ supporter ✭, #4257) [Link]

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/375

Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Posted Apr 30, 2010 1:09 UTC (Fri) by chantecode (subscriber, #54535) [Link]

Yeah, well, he actually continues to work on it :)

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