On 7/30/21 4:36 AM, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> Hello He Zhe,
>
> Thanks for the patch.
> But I am wondering whether I should merge it or not.
>
> Historically aufs used to contain rt-compat.patch, but I removed it. I
> want to keep aufs source code is against the mainline kernel. It is
> just simply I am not using RT patch and I am not sure how many aufs
> users want such patch. If there is a large community of RT users, your
> patch will be included in aufs5-standalone git as separate
> rt-compat.patch.
As PREEMPT_RT started to be enabled in mainline since 5.3, this can also be
helpful for mainline.
Yocto project regularly integrates aufs into its kernel tree, where there are
a number of users of preempt-rt and aufs.
Thanks,
Zhe
>
>
> J. R. Okajima
