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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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commence  Thunder from the hill  quotation:
> We should rename it to something that actually tells you what it does. 
> BTW, when was lock_kernel()? It must be really old if it still locked the 
> whole kernel.

It was added during the 1.3 development phase.  Dave's paper in the
OLS proceedings (that was yours, wasn't it?) covers it pretty nicely
(at least to my kernel-ignorant eyes).

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