On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are patches that allow the BKL to be removed in 2.6.39 I think. > We'll see. The BKL will no longer be there in .39: <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ba8216cd90560bc402f52076f64d8546e8aefcb>. Cheers, Tom