Re: RT patch acceptance

From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 16:20:53 EST


On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:52 -0700, Bill Huey wrote:

Sorry for the empty reply.

I was putting a hotdog under the saw to see if it would stop.

> > If you drop irq threads then you cannot convert all locks
> > anymore or have to add ugly in_interrupt()checks. So any conversion like
> > that requires converting locks.
>
> That's reversed. Interrupt threads are an isolated change itself and can
> be submitted upstream if so desired with no associated lock changes.



Precisely what was stated in the first place.

> bill
>

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