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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:26:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4311E5C1.8020306@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4GrEp-3E2-21@gated-at.bofh.it>

Oliver Neukum wrote:
> If you need that, it belongs into the kernel.

Why? By that logic, any realtime app would have to be built into the 
kernel. There is no need to put this kind of functionality into the 
kernel itself. mlockall() and SCHED_FIFO scheduling priority should 
ensure that the daemon should be able to run whenever it needs to.

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-08-28 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4FOa3-8fm-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4GlyV-3Rk-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4GqyE-2bk-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <4GrEp-3E2-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-08-28 16:26       ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-08-26 15:18 [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver Robert Love
2005-08-26 17:05 ` Bill Nottingham
2005-08-26 17:15   ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 17:33 ` Brian Gerst
2005-08-26 17:33   ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 18:01     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-26 18:03       ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 18:45         ` Dave Jones
2005-08-26 18:52           ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 19:55         ` Alan Cox
2005-08-26 19:29           ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 19:33             ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-26 19:37               ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 20:21                 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-26 22:43                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-26 20:27             ` Dave Jones
2005-08-26 19:54   ` Alan Cox
2005-08-26 18:18 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-26 18:30   ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 19:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-26 19:39   ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 19:43     ` Robert Love
2005-08-26 20:09       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-26 20:12     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-08-28 11:00       ` Yani Ioannou
2005-08-27 12:41 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-28  2:59   ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-08-28  8:09     ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-28  9:21       ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-28 19:30       ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-08-29  8:35         ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-29  8:59           ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-29  9:10             ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-30 17:44               ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-08-31  0:12                 ` Yani Ioannou

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