linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:26:21 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	trem <tremyfr@...oo.fr>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

> 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
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