Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161142AbVKDLo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161143AbVKDLo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:44:57 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.86]:4100 "EHLO anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161142AbVKDLo4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:44:56 -0500 Message-ID: <436B49AB.3020307@oxley.org> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:44:43 +0000 From: Felix Oxley User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Macintosh/20051006) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AndyLiebman@aol.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Premptible Kernels and Timer Frequencies References: <8b.32b6b62b.309c2a79@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8b.32b6b62b.309c2a79@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1320 Lines: 38 AndyLiebman@aol.com wrote: > Thanks again, Steve. That was really well explained. It would be great to > hear from Alan too if he has a moment. And it would be great to post all of this > on the kernel.org site. I'm sure lots of people are scratching their heads > about these new options and information such as this will help people set off > in the right direction. > > Andy Andy, I know it would be cool to get a mail from Linux or AM or AC, but you really have no right to expect an answer from anybody in particular, especially with a reasonably straight forward question of a general nature. After all if you phone Microsoft to discuss whether you should configure Windows to optimize for foreground or background tasks you don't expect to speak to Bill Gates or Steve Balmer do you? In my view it is bad form and shows you up when you do this. BTW, you are top posting again. (Finally, this may be a cheap shot, but it is possible that posting to LKML with an AOL email address carries some stigma :-) regards, Felix --- I lurk therefore I am - 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/