Re: RT patch acceptance

["K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> K.R. Foley wrote:
>
> > There are definitely those who would prefer to have the functionality,
> > at least as an option, in the mainline kernel. The group that I contract
> > for get heartburn about having to patch every kernel running on every
> > development workstation and every production system. We need hard RT,
> > but currently when we have to have hard RT we go with a different
> > product.
>
>
> Well, yes. There are lots of things Linux isn't suited for.
> There are likewise a lot of patches that SGI would love to
> get into the kernel so it runs better on their 500+ CPU
> systems. My point was just that a new functionality/feature
> doesn't by itself justify being included in the kernel.org
> kernel.

Agreed. Maybe the Linux kernel can't be all things to all of us, even as 
configuration options. I am certainly not the one who is going to make 
that decision either. I just wanted voice my opinion from a 
user/developer perspective.

> > Another thing that some of us want/need is a hard real-time
> > Linux that doesn't create the segregation that most of these specialized
> > products create. Currently there are damn few choices for real posix
> > applications development with hard RT requirements running in a Unix
> > environment.
>
> Maybe there are damn few because it is hard to get right within
> the framework of a general posix environment. Or maybe its
> because it has a comparatively small userbase (compared to say
> mid/small servers and desktops). Which are neither completely
> invalid reasons against its inclusion in Linux.
>
> But I want to be clear that I haven't read or thought about the
> code in question too much, and I don't have any opinions on it
> yet. So please nobody involve me in a flamewar about it :)
>
> Nick

And please don't misunderstand my statements as trying start a flamewar 
either. :-)

--
   kr
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