From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, ricklind@us.ibm.com, solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, frankeh@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:47:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030501084751.A15867@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030501014212.03d304e9.akpm@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nuking a kernel feature
> > (basically making sched_yield() more posix compliant) for ONE
> > broken-since-fixed app doesn't sound like a good plan to me.
>
> You're promising there are no others?
I'm saying that about half the others will expect the new (posix) behavior
and half will expect the old linux behavior of yielding only 1 spot.
Whatever you do you can't win for everything; and the vast majority of the
apps out there will not even call this function themselves. Ever.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-01 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-29 22:57 must-fix list for 2.6.0 Andrew Morton
2003-04-29 23:22 ` John Bradford
2003-04-29 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-30 3:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-30 4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-30 4:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-01 4:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-30 8:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-30 10:16 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-04-30 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-30 23:11 ` Rick Lindsley
2003-04-30 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-30 23:47 ` viro
2003-04-30 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-01 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-01 5:49 ` Shawn
2003-05-01 10:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-01 9:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-01 15:44 ` Robert Love
2003-05-01 0:09 ` Robert Love
2003-05-01 0:51 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-05-01 5:40 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-01 11:57 ` Bill Huey
2003-04-30 23:53 ` Robert Love
2003-05-01 8:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-01 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-01 8:47 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-04-30 23:41 ` Robert Love
2003-05-01 16:50 ` Hubertus Franke
2003-05-01 3:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-05-01 6:26 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-05-01 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-01 18:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-01 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-02 1:57 ` Andreas Boman
[not found] <20030429155731.07811707.akpm@digeo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-04-30 1:36 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-30 18:09 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-30 18:15 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-30 19:11 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <20030429231009$1e6b@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-04-30 4:55 ` Florian Weimer
2003-04-30 10:18 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-05-01 11:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-01 11:27 ` Florian Weimer
2003-05-01 12:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-01 12:05 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-02 16:28 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-02 21:14 ` David S. Miller
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