From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sankara Muthukrishnan <sankara.m@gmail.com>,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggesting to include timerfd patch
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:09:41 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1202082109250.2794@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328678109.2200.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 22:56 -0600, Sankara Muthukrishnan wrote:
> > Steven,
> >
> > Could you please include the patch that Thomas suggested for the
> > timerfd hangs in the email thread (link below), if Thomas is fine with
> > the patch? I did verify that that patch fixed the hangs that I saw on
> > a panda board (ARM Cortex A9 dual core).
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=132753755612168&w=2
> >
>
> Hi Sankara,
>
> I follow the same stable rules that the stable mainline follows. I will
> not add any patch to the stable release that is not in either mainline,
> or in Thomas's -rt development branch. This keeps the stable tree from
> forking and getting a fix that is not upstream. A fix to stable that is
> not included upstream, may be forgotten about.
>
> If Thomas adds it, or if this patch is in mainline (which it is
> obviously not, as it is -rt specific), then I will be happy to apply it.
It's on the way.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-08 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 4:56 Suggesting to include timerfd patch Sankara Muthukrishnan
2012-02-08 5:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-02-08 20:09 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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