On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 22:00 +0200, Jussi Laako wrote: > Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > Now that mingo's (et al) RT patches are coming into mainstream, what is > > the corporate rationale behind it and the running order of urgency? > > > > I am fishing for some information on; if it is the disk-drives, the > > network drivers, the usb stack or something else that I am too ignorant > > to have noticed? > > > > What worries me the most, is corner-cases on network, blocking multiple > > cpu's. > > Isn't the functionality conditional and selected at configure time? I > wouldn't be too worried about it. It also forces broken drivers to be > fixed which is only a good thing. This is a bit similar to the situation > when kernel pre-emption was introduced.
Yes, but the pathces are introduced and applied a bit at the time for each official kernel version. At 2.6.19 we can read mingo's own comment over at slashdot that 'now 50% has gone in'. Friend of order would like to what half of which is accepted and why. Kernel conf is hard enough without knowing what to look for, really! > > > - Jussi --
