On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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. Tsss. Never admit such things. > Darn, it looks like you are onto our scheme. Which scheme ? The only Trojan horses in the kernel tree are in drivers/char/drivers/char/tty_io.c which put Linus himself into Linux-0.98.2 :) tglx -- 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
