Re: [PATCH] parport/ppdev: fix registration of sysctl entries

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 05:05:19AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	c) *HOWEVER*, all races aside, we have a genuinely fscked up
> API.  Each of these parport scheduling entities has a parameter - timeslice.
> That parameter is exposed as sysctl.  And we definitely want these per-open,
> not per-port.  And we get everything for the same port mapped to the same
> sysctl.

Why we want it per-open? What's a timeslice (in this context)?
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