On 2010-11-21 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Yes, I'd be ok with UDF doing a "select BKL" along with a "default n" for BKL itself.

I think UDF currently is the only sane reason to have BKL enabled any more, and yes, it would probably make it easier to configure things.

UFS (which I use) also relies on BKL.