Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:47:51 +0000
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:42:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> 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.
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