Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261799AbVE3Wj7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261800AbVE3Wj5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:39:57 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:28431 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261799AbVE3Wjb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 18:39:31 -0400 Message-ID: <429B9880.1070604@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:49:36 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bill Huey (hui)" CC: Esben Nielsen , Nick Piggin , kus Kusche Klaus , James Bruce , 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 References: <429B61F7.70608@opersys.com> <20050530223434.GC9972@nietzsche.lynx.com> In-Reply-To: <20050530223434.GC9972@nietzsche.lynx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1257 Lines: 30 Bill Huey (hui) wrote: >>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. This is rather short. Can you elaborate a little on what you're trying to say here? thanks. > 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 I didn't say the RT patch was hard to maintain. I said that it increased the cost of maintenance for the rest of the kernel (which is the feeling that seems to be echoed by other peoples' answers in this thread.) BTW, please take a breath here. I'm not interested in taking part in a flame-fest. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - 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/