On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:29:34AM +0200, dagecko@free.fr wrote: > Anyway, my question remains the same. Could we expect future kernel > releases to enable big lock ? I suspect that if the BKL is not enabled now, it is not likely to be enabled in the future. The BKL is something that pretty much everyone would like to go away. In fact, while I see a configuration option for 2.6.38, 2.6.39 seems to have no such option, so I will assume that nothing is using it still and that it has been removed altogether from Linux. > I work in graphics industry, so I often need up-to-date drivers to > make tests and so on. So it would be nice for me that I could install > drivers as soon as they are made available on IP manufacturers. That's the problem with proprietary drivers. When they break, nobody else can fix them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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