From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932409AbYEFQIs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765249AbYEFQF3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:05:29 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:61637 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765235AbYEFQF1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 12:05:27 -0400 Subject: Re: Preempt-RT patch for 2.6.25 From: Daniel Walker To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Remy Bohmer , LKML , RT , Jon Masters , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: <3efb10970805021102n4d87f55eue723786281b06fcb@mail.gmail.com> <1209753250.25628.34.camel@dd.thebigcorporation.com> <1209754467.25628.42.camel@dd.thebigcorporation.com> <1210003265.17132.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210004376.17132.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210007084.17132.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210013938.17132.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1210025532.17132.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 09:05:22 -0700 Message-Id: <1210089922.17132.132.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 06:40 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Dropping someones work from the official tree is an insult to the > developer that did that work. The *only* reason to drop code is if it > happens to break something else that already existed or it has been warned > for at least one year that if no one maintains this code it will be > dropped. Dropping it for the sake of making "my work easier" is not an > excuse. > > Don't say "well it's only temporary" because it's not. You even expected > the ones that did the work to "re-port" it to your new tree. Sorry Daniel, > that's not the way things happen in Open Source. Steven, this is all out of mainline. It works however we want it to work. As I've been saying, had you wanted the architectures included, you should have said that a month ago. You had a month you review everything and work with me .. Daniel