From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261172AbTEAIfr (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 04:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261176AbTEAIfr (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 04:35:47 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:30212 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261172AbTEAIfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 04:35:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:47:51 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, ricklind@us.ibm.com, solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, frankeh@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 Message-ID: <20030501084751.A15867@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20030430121105.454daee1.akpm@digeo.com> <200304302311.h3UNB2H27134@owlet.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030430162108.09dbd019.akpm@digeo.com> <1051778205.1406.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030501014212.03d304e9.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030501014212.03d304e9.akpm@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > Nuking a kernel feature > > (basically making sched_yield() more posix compliant) for ONE > > broken-since-fixed app doesn't sound like a good plan to me. > > You're promising there are no others? I'm saying that about half the others will expect the new (posix) behavior and half will expect the old linux behavior of yielding only 1 spot. Whatever you do you can't win for everything; and the vast majority of the apps out there will not even call this function themselves. Ever.