linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

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Message-ID: <20100125180315.6bcb347f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:15 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>, tytso@....edu,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	utrace-devel@...hat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

> Uh oh, that's not good for us real-time folks.
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/357800/
> 
> "And, according to Linus, the realtime people are crazy, so they can be
> left to deal with the weird stuff."

	I'd prefer the trees to be separate for testing purposes: it 
	doens't	make much sense to have SMP support as a normal
	kernel feature when most people won't have SMP anyway"
			-- Linus Torvalds


Use cases got that into the tree pretty easily, I am sure RT ones will do
the same.
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