Re: [patch 1/1] cpufreq_conservative: invert meaning of 'ignore_nice'

From: Stefan Seyfried (seife_at_suse.de)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:56:56 +0200
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

    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, Nürnberg \                    -- Leonard Cohen
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