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Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

Posted May 8, 2010 17:50 UTC (Sat) by pixelpapst (guest, #55301)
In reply to: Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free? by arnd
Parent article: Might 2.6.35 be BKL-free?

> Pushing the BKL down with the new patches achieves everything that this would have done, and more, so the extra work was well worth it.

Is seems however there is some resistance to this on Linus' part:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/978691

Or maybe Linus is only referring to 2.6.34 here, not entirely sure.


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