Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Sun Aug 28 2005 - 11:27:46 EST


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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