Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Lee Revell
2004-08-11T03:06:41Z

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 20:23, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 04:16, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> Another option would be an Alt-Sysrq-something that lowered all RT
> >> processes to normal levels.
> >
> >
> > If someone wants to code this up I and the other people on jackit-devel
> > would gladly test it.
>
> Here you go. Some limited testing suggests that it actually works.
> Pressing Alt-Sysrq-N (as in Nice) changes all RT tasks to SCHED_NORMAL
> policy.
>

I sent this patch to the jackit-devel list, and everyone seems to think
this would be a useful feature; had this been around a few years ago it
certainly would have aided JACK's development. Debugging an RT process
becomes as easy as a regular one (read: reboot free). I see no reason
not to merge it once it has been widely tested.

Lee