On Friday 15 December 2006 21:24, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > 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.
Can you post a link to the story? A quick search didn't find it here.. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org
