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SubjectRe: Back to the future.


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> We're freezing many of them just fine. ;-)

And can you name a _single_ advantage of doing so?

It so happens, that most people wouldn't notice or care that kmirrord got
frozen (kernel thread picked at random - it might be one of the threads
that has gotten special-cased to not do that), but I have yet to hear a
single coherent explanation for why it's actually a good idea in the first
place.

And it has added totally idiotic code to every single kernel thread main
loop. For _no_ reason, except that the concept was broken, and needed more
breakage to just make it work.

Linus
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