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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree
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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