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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