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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6.14] Cpufreq_ondemand sysfs names change
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:03:48 +0200
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On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:54, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Blaisorblade wrote:
> > *) to rename the flag to ignore_nice_load or ignore_nice_tasks, to avoid
> > burning the user too much. Very few people use it now, but let's help
> > them.

> I use it and i have even "fixed" my applications to use the "wrong" flag.
Me too, but it's a trivial script in my case.
> >> My thinking too, its a relatively new feature and when I have looked
> >> around very few userland tools even tinker with ondemand so either we do
> >> it now or not at all...or rather we do it later and listen to everyone
> >> complain :)

> so the early birds are doomed? ;-)
> I'll bite the bullet if this "flip the meaning" gets in, but i don't
> like it. I'll have to check for the kernel version in my userspace code,
> then which is generally a bad idea IMO.

That's why I proposed renaming the sysfs file, and then you can test with 
"test -f" (in bash).
-- 
Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!".
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade


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