Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030345AbVI3Pwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:52:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030346AbVI3Pwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:52:51 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:13781 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030345AbVI3Pwu (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: <433D4428.3050906@suse.de> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:56:56 +0200 From: Stefan Seyfried User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones Cc: Andrew Morton , cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk, Alexander Clouter , LKML , Blaisorblade Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative: invert meaning of 'ignore_nice' References: <20050929084435.GC3169@inskipp.digriz.org.uk> <200509291346.33855.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20050929215153.GF31516@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050929215153.GF31516@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1318 Lines: 28 Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > So userspace tools will error out rather than do the reverse of what they were > > doing, and the user will fix the thing according to the (new) docs. > > Agreed. If we change this, we change it completely. > Stefan already mentioned his app will break, and we typically don't > find out about widespread breakage until after we ship a release. I can live with the change - powersaved has a setting "consider_nice" to configure this and i can put out a support article telling people to "invert" this setting if they are running custom kernels, so it is not really a showstopper for me. Most of the users don't understand thos settings anyway ;-) I'm not sure what is better for me - a nice short name or a clear indication on which version we are running ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N?rnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen - 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/