From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760932AbYCCKHV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 05:07:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754520AbYCCKHJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 05:07:09 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:60958 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751727AbYCCKHH (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 05:07:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iMDAuG3AWDxy5trKfef0ljktv4xGYwZngWv6ac6uAKxLdaQ+qHgPofW6VbQ283Sv1/zu25+jCpaqWzRSFOQXLRBSV0rqCizR55/3d/t7g2rYrcM18O0u9Pv48VhjyP2nUdHolapXWjyNdU98UXlo3ac5jGeF3jPmL2r0g/DAgkI= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:07:06 +0100 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: SCHED_IDLE documentation Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" , "Christoph Hellwig" , cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, "Jeremy Kerr" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080303092422.GA18281@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1203376368.275756.252634247263.1.gpush@pokey> <200803030612.28039.arnd@arndb.de> <20080303051719.GA26102@lst.de> <200803030721.52869.arnd@arndb.de> <20080303073311.GB5934@elte.hu> <20080303092422.GA18281@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > > If we don't have any man page, what is the actual definition of > > > > SCHED_IDLE anyway? > > > > > > it's rather simple: "it's a priority level even lower priority than nice > > > +19". > > > > Some other questions whose answers may be worth including in the man page: > > > > * When was SCHED_IDLE added? (Actually, who added it?) > > "git-blame include/linux/sched.h" gives you that information, it was > added by me as part of CFS: > > commit 0e6aca43e08a62a48d6770e9a159dbec167bf4c6 > Author: Ingo Molnar > Date: Mon Jul 9 18:51:57 2007 +0200 Yep -- I found it later -- thanks. Ingo, could you please CC me when kernel-userland API changes go into mainline? Otherwise, they potentially end up undocumented, and un(der)used. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html