Blaisorblade <[email protected]> [20050929 13:46:33 +0200]: > > On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:44, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > WARNING: this obvious breaks any userland tools that expect things to be > > the other way round. This patch clears up the confusion but should go in > > ASAP as at the moment it seems very few tools even make use of this > > functionality; all I could find was a Gentoo Wiki entry. > > My suggestion on this is to rename the flag too, as ignore_nice_load (or > ignore_nice_tasks, choose your way). Don't forget to do it in docs too. > 'ignore_nice_tasks' gets my vote.. > So userspace tools will error out rather than do the reverse of what they were > doing, and the user will fix the thing according to the (new) docs. > > This is the way we avoid problems in kernel code, when changing APIs (I read > Linus talking about this), so I assume it's ok? > Makes a lot of sense. I'll roll out some new patches this evening and submit them. Regards Alex > -- > Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". > Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade > > > > > > > ___________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB > http://mail.yahoo.it -- ________________________________________ < An idle mind is worth two in the bush. > ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
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