Re: 2.6.16 - sys_sched_getaffinity & hotplug

From: Robert Love
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 11:05:17 EST


On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 14:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> ah, indeed, so *you* are the one to be blamed for passing on a mortally
> flawed hack, making you guilty of contributory enkludgement of the 2.6
> kernel ;)

To be fair, I should point out that my original patch made the second
argument a pointer, so that the kernel could return the actual length of
the mask if it were too small. This would move the interface from
"flawed hack" to "not too bad". ;-)

Anyhow, Linus said that the interface was stupid and the second
parameter should not be a pointer. So, if we are gonna blame
someone... :)

Robert Love


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