Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759191AbYABNgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:36:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754947AbYABNgl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:36:41 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45888 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754925AbYABNgk (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:36:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:26:21 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Herbert Xu , Andrew Morton , trem , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 Message-ID: <20080102132621.4da29e29@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20080102121909.GA6285@elte.hu> References: <9DtBq-2jD-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <200801022131.15482.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1199271676.6821.112.camel@twins> <200801022212.29303.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1199273047.6821.119.camel@twins> <20080102121909.GA6285@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 584 Lines: 12 > BKL properties, that could be wrapped. I guess fixing the TTY code to > have no BKL dependencies has a higher chance of success - given that > Alan is working on it :-) Bit by bit when I can face it, and with a lot of other people contributing parts. Right now the BKL mostly protects the open/close paths and those are *really* ugly -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/