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BKL-free in 2.6.37 (maybe)

BKL-free in 2.6.37 (maybe)

Posted Sep 23, 2010 14:20 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: BKL-free in 2.6.37 (maybe) by NAR
Parent article: BKL-free in 2.6.37 (maybe)

> Do you mean tested 10 years ago and was possibly working 10 years ago?

No: I meant in small but non-zero use still today. Replace "Amiga FFS" by a more appropriate example if required.

> I remember an article here about a kernel module that wasn't even compiling for some 4 years and nobody noticed.

I wasn't considering such extreme cases. This seems rather off-topic since nobody cares whether such broken modules use the BKL or not.


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