From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Behme Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] ARM: OMAP: Add clocksource and clockevent driver for OMAP Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:28:50 +0100 Message-ID: <4589AB12.1020309@gmail.com> References: <4588FFC7.5060203@gmail.com> <20061220155507.GB1710@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, David Brownell , Daniel Walker , Kevin Hilman Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:34881 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030360AbWLTV3B (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:01 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so2369627uga for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:28:59 -0800 (PST) To: Theodore Tso In-Reply-To: <20061220155507.GB1710@thunk.org> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:17:59AM +0100, Dirk Behme wrote: > >>the following patches add clocksource and clockevent driver >>for ARM based TI OMAP devices. >> >>They are against linux-2.6.19 + patch-2.6.20-rc1 + >>patch-2.6.20-rc1-rt0. The clocksource patch went through >>several review cycles on OMAP list. > > > Hi Dirk, > > As a suggestion, could you consider sending patches to > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org? One of the reasons why we (in > consultation with folks like Ingo and tglx) deliberatly didn't create > a RT development list was that in order to promote getting -rt related > patches into mainline as soon as possible, we wanted to keep patch and > development discussion on LKML. For example, it's not clear that the > ARM maintainer subscribes to linux-rt-users; furthermore the more > patch discussion happens on LKML, it helps promote willingness of > other kernel developers that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT isn't going to go away, > and will probably (hopefully!) be merged into mainline someday soon. Many thanks for this clarification! Yes, I will see to find some time to send the patches to LKML. I will check as well if parts of your quite good explanation above will fit into rt wiki. Cheers Dirk