Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:26:41 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver. |
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Oliver Neukum wrote: > If you need that, it belongs into the kernel.
Why? By that logic, any realtime app would have to be built into the kernel. There is no need to put this kind of functionality into the kernel itself. mlockall() and SCHED_FIFO scheduling priority should ensure that the daemon should be able to run whenever it needs to.
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