Should we be using CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL in the Fedora kernel?

[Chuck Ebbert]

Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:01 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> I get the feeling that some of the bugs we are seeing is because
>> we have enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL. I remember looking at the
>> code when it came out and thinking it was too scary to enable,
>> so I never did in my own vanilla kernels.
> 
> Well, it's likely to remain around upstream so surely it's better to fix
> bugs and feed them back upstream than ignore this, it'll just be painful
> later on IMO :-)
> 

Well yeah, but it's optional. We don't enable CONFIG_PREEMPT and that's
been there for a long time...