Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261591AbVEaV5J (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 17:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261602AbVEaV5J (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 17:57:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.lnxw.com ([207.21.185.24]:57355 "EHLO smtp.lnxw.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261591AbVEaV5B (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2005 17:57:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:01:51 -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: <20050531220151.GA1804@nietzsche.lynx.com> References: <429B70F2.20602@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429B70F2.20602@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: 638 Lines: 16 On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:00:50PM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Here's for the fun of history, a diff between the 8390.c in 2.2.16 and the > one in rt-net 0.9.0: This is really interesting code. It's really not unlike what preempt RT is already doing with the atomic locking (replacement). From the looks of it conversion of an ethernet driver to be RT capable is shockingly trivial. 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/