Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261790AbVE3Wad (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:30:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261793AbVE3Wad (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:30:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.lnxw.com ([207.21.185.24]:42506 "EHLO smtp.lnxw.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261790AbVE3W3y (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:29:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:34:34 -0700 To: Karim Yaghmour Cc: Esben Nielsen , Nick Piggin , kus Kusche Klaus , James Bruce , "Bill Huey (hui)" , Andi Kleen , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Ingo Molnar , dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance Message-ID: <20050530223434.GC9972@nietzsche.lynx.com> References: <429B61F7.70608@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429B61F7.70608@opersys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Bill Huey (hui) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 21 On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:56:55PM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Which gets up back where we began: drivers that are non-deterministic > will continue being deterministic regardless of what solution is adopted, > if any, and will be in need of a re-write/major-modification, which > itself will have little or no added value for non-rters ... >From my memory DRM drivers have direct path to the vertical retrace through the current ioctl() interface. It's not an issue for that driver and probably many others that use simple syscalls like that. The RT patch isn't hard to maintain and only one jerk-off objected to it without providing any useful information why the single kernel approach is faulty other than it jars his easily offended sensibilities bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/