Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:20:46 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules |
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* Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:56:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:41 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > LTTng needs this symbol to prepend the current task dynamic priority > > > value to events (optional context information). > > > > I absolutely detest exporting such stuff. It propagates the idea that > > task prio actually means something. Also, modules really shouldn't care. > > Mathieu, if you don't have this information, does anything really care?
I can just remove this specific context module, nothing else will care except the end users, but it's a shame to lose this option.
Thanks,
Mathieu
> > thanks, > > greg k-h
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