Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:13:52 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fire Engine??
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:56:41 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:36:20 -0800
> "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think this is acceptable.  It's important that all
> > of the timestamps are as accurate as they were before.
> 
> I disagree on that. The window is small and slowing down 99.99999% of all 
> users who never care about this for this extremely obscure
> misdesigned API does not make  much sense to me.

We can't change behavior like this.  Every time we've tried to
do it, we've been burnt.  Remember nonlocal-bind?
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