Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:23:50AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > folks, can you please take this RT stuff of lkml?  And with that I
> > don't mean the highlevel discussions what makes sense, but specific
> > patches that aren't related to anything near mainline. [...]
> 
> this is a misconception - there's been a few dozen patches steadily 
> trickling into mainline that were all started in the PREEMPT_RT 
> patchset, so this "RT stuff", both the generic arguments and the details 
> are very much relevant. I wouldnt be doing it if it wasnt relevant to 
> the mainline kernel. The discussions are well concentrated into 2-3 
> subjects so you can plonk those threads if you are not interested.

Then send patches when you think they're ready.  Everything directly
related to PREEPT_RT except the highlevel discussion is defintly offotpic.
Just create your preempt-rt mailinglist and get interested parties there,
lkml is for _general_ kernel discussion - even most subsystems that are
in mainline have their own lists.

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