linux-kernel - Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 22:39:49 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	corbet@....net (Jonathan Corbet)
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

> I kind of like the combination of 2 and 3, done in such a way that
> there's no "every driver must change" flag day.  This could be an
> interesting project, even...  Thoughts?

Its beginning to sound like should start 2.7 ;)

Alan

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