From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262096AbVG0Oq7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262100AbVG0Oq6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:58 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:39661 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262096AbVG0Oq4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make MAX_RT_PRIO and MAX_USER_RT_PRIO configurable From: Steven Rostedt To: Ingo Molnar Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20050727143843.GB26303@elte.hu> References: <1122473595.29823.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050727141754.GA25356@elte.hu> <1122474539.29823.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050727143843.GB26303@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:31 -0400 Message-Id: <1122475591.29823.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > a fair number of apps assume that there's _at least_ 100 levels of > priorities. The moment you have a custom kernel that offers more than > 100 priorities, there will be apps that assume that there are more than > 100 priority levels, and will break if there are less. That's not the same. The apps on my computer right now should not assume that I have 100 priorities. Since I'm free to work with any kernel that I want. The customers that ask for a custom kernel are also writing custom apps for a specific product. Things can be assumed more since the apps are not generic tools that are running on desktops. In fact, some of these apps require special hardware to work (at least a driver to imitate the hardware). -- Steve