Re: [PATCH] disable PREEMPT_BKL per default

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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:47 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Tue, Oct 18, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:45 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > Do not enable this per default during make oldconfig.
> > > 'default $foo' should not be abused like that.
> > 
> > afaik that was done to increase testing.
> > This thing shouldn't be a config option at all in a final release imo;
> > the config option as I understand it is there to be able to disable it
> > during the testing phase in -mm to help diagnose otherwise unexplained
> > issues.
> 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is already in Linus tree.

hmm maybe time to remove it; by now it ought to be mature enough

> Its disabled in our configs.

any particular reason for that? Eg are there any known or suspected
issues with this?

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