From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:07:11 -0400 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:35742 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:05:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3D24E368.5060905@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 17:08:08 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro CC: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from driverfs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Dave Hansen wrote: > >>CC'ing Al for comments... >> >>Greg KH wrote: >> >>>bleah, a proliferation of a zillion little spinlocks all across the >>>kernel is not my idea of fun :( >> >>A zillion locks each with a single purpose is a lot more fun than 1 >>lock with a zillion different uses. > > Wrong. It's fun if you are into taking a turd and turning it into a thin film > spread over all available surfaces. The former has a chance to be removed. > The latter is hopeless. > > "Zillion little spinlocks" means that kernel is scaled into oblivion. > Literally. If you want to play with resulting body - feel free, but > I like it less kinky. > So, can we remove the spread in this case? -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com