Re: [PATCH] cyclictest: Use symbolic names for scheduling policy

[John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I agree to that, since what the internal number is, is of no
significance to
the user.

Thanks,
John
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