Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261557AbVDNRZl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:25:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261558AbVDNRZl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:25:41 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]:11133 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261557AbVDNRZg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:25:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C2k6AMnBy8knHvKBvkdgQaUbhVH5arUatFsks36KH+0IZ3g5Kbfg1KRNVHPLRrxI7CdRj4B4vbY0OatQLife6Fn+9JJw1M931QGLWOecpTrdJzW4Jaix3gWmLjywKKfD4I14mOp4FTBqaUheza5RDZTp5yrfHTdlPWdTwOQBTjU= Message-ID: <8783be66050414102551698d86@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:25:35 -0400 From: Ross Biro Reply-To: Ross Biro To: Dave Jones , Ross Biro , Andi Kleen , Ross Biro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode In-Reply-To: <20050413232826.GA22698@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <4252E827.4080807@google.com> <8783be66050412075218b2b0b0@mail.gmail.com> <20050413183725.GG50241@muc.de> <8783be66050413160033e6283d@mail.gmail.com> <20050413232826.GA22698@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 25 On 4/13/05, Dave Jones wrote: > If we have a situation where we screw a subset of users with the > config option =y and a different subset with =n, how is this improving > the situation any over what we have today ? This is exactly the case and this is better than what we have today because it makes it easy to chose =y or =n, so rather than making things work for subset 1 and screwing subset 2. Each distro can chose which subset to screw by default and make it easy for them to unscrew themselves. Just to be clear, we can have two users A and B with the exact same hardware. A setting of =y will screw user A and a setting of =n will screw user B. Ideally, they would both get better hardware, but that is not always an option. Ross Ross - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/