Hi, I was trying to understand the big kernel lock and was wondering that it has been quite a while that it has been on the deprecated list. When is it slated to move out of the kernel? Also just for curosity purposes, does it provide interrupt safety? Thanks, Rajat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs