Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754725AbYJCAcc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:32:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753727AbYJCAcX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:32:23 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56539 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752427AbYJCAcW (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:32:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:26:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Daniel Walker cc: Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Veen , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jon Masters , Sven Dietrich Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] genirq: add infrastructure for threaded interrupt handlers In-Reply-To: <1222989842.2995.240.camel@laptop-eth> Message-ID: References: <20081001223213.078984344@linutronix.de> <1222912413.2995.80.camel@laptop-eth.lan> <1222962525.2995.100.camel@laptop-eth> <1222974254.2995.144.camel@laptop-eth> <20081002192827.GA2950@elte.hu> <1222978145.2995.172.camel@laptop-eth> <1222980485.2995.186.camel@laptop-eth> <1222983008.2995.205.camel@laptop-eth> <1222989842.2995.240.camel@laptop-eth> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2043 Lines: 47 On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 18:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > Why are you bringing up real time in this thread?? The thread has > > > > absolutely nothing to do with real time. This thread is about a better > > > > way to handle interrupt handlers. > > > > > > I'm concerned about the connection between the two, which is what I'm > > > commenting on. > > > > Well, please take that up separately. Do you see these patches going > > into the -rt tree? No, they are going in mainline. We will deal with > > them for -rt when the time comes. > > It's an RFC after all, it's not going into anything at this point.. Because you are deciding what's going into mainline, right ? > > You are bringing up concerns about mainline changes with something that > > is maintained outside the mainline tree. Changes to mainline have never > > been influenced by changes maintained outside of mainline. > > Again it's an RFC .. It's not going into mainline.. You made such a statement vs. hrtimers some time ago. > > Yes Daniel, I know. But this is not a conversation. This is a email thread > > that is talking about changes to mainline. The mainline kernel developers > > really don't care about any issues that these changes will do to the > > real time project. The real time project is a niche, and is currently > > outside the mainline tree. Hence, lets stop bothering mainline > > developers with our issues. > > Your speaking for a lot of developers.. It's an RFC, it's coming from > real time developers, it's real time connected, and this is the real > time development list .. This RFC patch is from a mainline developer/ maintainer who happens to be a real time developer as well. Welcome to my real time incoherent nonsense filter tglx -- 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/