Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:21:12AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> You should talk to Andrew Morton, as he plans to do this also.

Last time I talked to him he was primarily interested in the VM.

> I thought the internals of the scheduler weren't exposed to the rest of the
> kernel...

They shouldn't,  But many old drivers do (and _had to_):

	current->policy = SCHED_YIELD;
	schedule();

which isn't possible with the new scheduler.

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.