Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:29:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance |
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Why don't you run grep yourself, this is only drivers/ > [...] > ./mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: local_irq_disable(); > ./mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: local_irq_disable();
I can speak at least for those two since I added them and they are indeed OK with RT and actually needed even with RT.
> As said even if all the above is audited, it _can_ break over time, > while it wouldn't break with RTAI/rtlinux even if you infinite loop and > hang in there.
Actualy it's RTAI/rtlinux which is broken wrt the above IRQ disable. See for yourself when they're used and watch RTAI/rtlinux crash.
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