Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
15 May 2003 16:24:41 -0400


On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 16:07, shaheed wrote:

> I'm sorry to appear foolish, but as explained above, I genuinely don't
> understand why this does not belong in the kernel. I would be grateful for
> elaboration. If I really am being thick, then just ignore me and I'll just
> solve this for myself using route 4.

Oh, one other problem with doing it in the kernel via INIT_TASK:

You end up affining any kernel threads, which you absolutely do not want
to do _implicitly_. Maybe explicitly, but certainly not implicitly as a
blind consequence.

Doing it via init is really the way to go.

Regards,

Robert Love

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