Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Tue, 24 May 2005 17:45:13 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 17:10 -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:44:04PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > That's a good reason why it should be included. The maintainers know > > that as developers there is no way for us to flush out all the bugs in > > our code by ourselves. If the RT patch was added to -mm it would have > > greatly increased coverage which , as you noted, is needed . Drivers > > will break like mad , but no one but the community has all the hardware > > for the drivers. > > It's too premature at this time. There was a lot of work that went > into the RT patch that I would have like for folks to have thought > it through more carefully like RCU, the RT mutex itself, etc... > All of it is very raw and most likely still is subject to rapid > change. >
I think some of it is volatile still, but there are plenty of pieces that could go in now. Threaded interrupts is up for discussion, this is the reason why I started the thread. People appear to have specific objections to that feature, which are still not clear.
Whole patch, no, small chunks yes.
Daniel
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