On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But on the whole, I think it's actually worked out pretty well for them. I > think the mainline kernel has improved in the process, but I also suspect > that _their_ RT patches have also improved thanks to having to make the > work more palatable to people like me who don't care all that deeply about > their particular flavor of crazy. Actually this is an understatement. Every feature (and I do mean _every_) that went from -rt into mainline, undertook 3 or more rewrites before it was acceptable for mainline. And every time, the end result made the -rt patch set better as a whole. Not to mention, that a lot of the early stuff also cleaned up mainline. You can't have Real-Time without having a clean kernel. And as you stated, a lot of those patches to clean up the kernel, no one even knew that the real reason was to help the -rt patch set. They were well disguised Trojan horses. Darn, it looks like you are onto our scheme. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
