On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:13:42 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which bugs in particular were you thinking might be caused by this? > There's not that much generic code left under BKL these days anyway is there? > And as for drivers.. just ioctls ? Last time I looked there was a ton of code in fs/* which required BKL. Drivers were written not to assume BKL for years, but due to general ineptitude of driver writers this wasn't really enforced. -- Pete