Subject: Re: 2.6.16 - sys_sched_getaffinity & hotplug
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, akpm@osdl.org, steiner@sgi.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:09:44 -0500
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On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 14:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> ah, indeed, so *you* are the one to be blamed for passing on a mortally 
> flawed hack, making you guilty of contributory enkludgement of the 2.6 
> kernel ;)

To be fair, I should point out that my original patch made the second
argument a pointer, so that the kernel could return the actual length of
the mask if it were too small.  This would move the interface from
"flawed hack" to "not too bad".  ;-)

Anyhow, Linus said that the interface was stupid and the second
parameter should not be a pointer.  So, if we are gonna blame
someone... :)

	Robert Love


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