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From: Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cyclictest: Use symbolic names for scheduling policy
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:01:08 +0100
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Hi John,

>> [..]
>> We need to adapt the help message accordingly.
> Hmnn, not sure if I like this one. The message is not perfect as it
> stands, but I don't think this is an improvement.
> The code seems to parse, fifo, rr, and other.
> Internally the numbers are as specified, but we're not parsing them anyway.
The original help message says:

-y POLI  --policy=POLI     policy of realtime thread (1:FIFO, 2:RR)
                           format: --policy=fifo(default) or --policy=rr

This *could* be understood that "-y 2" would be a legal way to specify
SCHED_RR, but it is not. Shouldn't we at least remove the "(1:FIFO,
2:RR)" part?

	Carsten.