From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751155AbVH1Q1A (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751221AbVH1Q1A (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:27:00 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:27939 "EHLO pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbVH1Q07 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:26:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:26:41 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver. In-reply-to: <4GrEp-3E2-21@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4311E5C1.8020306@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4FOa3-8fm-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <4GlyV-3Rk-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4GqyE-2bk-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <4GrEp-3E2-21@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/