Re: Plan to support RT on 3.8

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

Jain,

please do not take this reply as a personal affront!

This is solely about the impertinence of your employer as I have
already ignored _three_ private mails with the same topic originated
from Freescale management folks.

Though, I'm happy that you've been obviously forced by the same people
which I ignored to send this mail. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able
to give a public response.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Jain Priyanka-B32167 wrote:

> We are planning for our next BSP. For that. We would like to use
> Linux kernel 3.8.
> 
> It would be really helpful if you can please share the plan of RT
> support on 3.8 kernel.
>
> When can the release be expected?

I think I've made it entirely clear in the past, that these stupid
roadmap and release plan questions are annoying as hell.

	See: http://bit.ly/XJF0em

I'm really amazed by the chuzpa of Freescale management folks to
demand information from an Open Source project solely for the sake of
Freescale business decisions.

I would not mind such a demand from someone who actively fosters the
development of this project (either by providing substantial man power
or by sustainably funding it), but it seems that none of the managers
at Freescale noticed my recent observations about participation on
PREEMPT_RT.

	See: https://lwn.net/Articles/524329/
	and  https://lwn.net/Articles/232379/


Just to make it clear:

 - Neither I nor anyone else in the PREEMPT_RT community has any
   interest in Freescale business decisions.

 - I personally detest the abuse of Freescale engineers who are
   involved with this project to be forced to gain information which
   their managers could not get.

 - I call out Freescale management folks to explain why they think
   that Open Source free-riding entitles them to demand anything from
   the community.

Thanks,

	tglx