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Re: K6 patches for review
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at dm dot cobaltmicro dot com>
- Subject: Re: K6 patches for review
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:53:53 -0600
- cc: jfc at tiac dot net, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199808231632.JAA15715@dm.cobaltmicro.com>you write:
> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:23:29 -0600
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
>
> Presumably as we get a better feel for the kinds of problems
> everyone uses MD_SCHED to solve we'll have a better clue what kinds
> of things we need to do in the generic scheduler :-)
>
> One thing which ate me was this interface went in without any example
> usage in any backend (yes I know what it was intended for). So I had
> to fly by the seat of my pants when I tried to take advantage of it.
It was for a target which is still covered by an NDA.
Cygnus figured the MD_SCHED stuff would be useful to others and contributing
it would not violate the NDA, so Cygnus went ahead and contributed the
code.
It probably would have been better if we had included at least one
example for a public target.
jeff