Re: [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative: invert meaning of 'ignore_nice'

[Alexander Clouter]

Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx> [20050929 13:46:33 +0200]:
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> On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:44, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> 
> > WARNING: this obvious breaks any userland tools that expect things to be
> > the other way round.  This patch clears up the confusion but should go in
> > ASAP as at the moment it seems very few tools even make use of this
> > functionality; all I could find was a Gentoo Wiki entry.
> 
> My suggestion on this is to rename the flag too, as ignore_nice_load (or 
> ignore_nice_tasks, choose your way). Don't forget to do it in docs too.
> 
'ignore_nice_tasks' gets my vote..

> So userspace tools will error out rather than do the reverse of what they were 
> doing, and the user will fix the thing according to the (new) docs.
> 
> This is the way we avoid problems in kernel code, when changing APIs (I read 
> Linus talking about this), so I assume it's ok?
> 
Makes a lot of sense.  I'll roll out some new patches this evening and submit 
them.

Regards

Alex

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