From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756228AbYENVvk (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 17:51:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751309AbYENVvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 17:51:31 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:50054 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751072AbYENVvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 17:51:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:39:49 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree Message-ID: <20080514223949.041ca37e@core> In-Reply-To: <6457.1210801515@vena.lwn.net> References: <20080514174955.GA515@elte.hu> <6457.1210801515@vena.lwn.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-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 > 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