Re: RFC about Comedi on a patch that remove a lot fo code

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:08:06AM -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> On Friday 24 April 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:28:28AM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> > > Dear Comedi developers,
> > >
> > > Sorry for my bad english.
> > >
> > > I would be happy to receive your considerations about that patch:
> > >
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=123792129500760&w=2
> > >
> > > I know that some users use Comedi on dual kernel approach systems.
> > > Obviously I don't have any against this but i think that Linux git
> > > tree isn't the right place to support those software (RTAI, Xenomai,
> > > RTLinux and others). Those projects already released patches against
> > > Linux source code so it very easy for them add also patch for Comedi
> > > drivers in the same tarball.
> > >
> > > At the already listed 8 reasons  in that email I want added a ninth
> > > one: 9) Give more chance for interested developers to fix it against
> > > RT_PREEMPT http://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=124049407712792&w=2
> >
> > I am siding with you, and agree all of the RT stuff should be deleted
> > from the in-kernel comedi code, as there is on in-kernel users of it.
> >
> > Also, the recent Linux RT changes will not need any of these
> > driver-specific changes at all from what I can tell, so they are now
> > obsolete.
> >
> > Frank, unless you have any major objections, I'd like to remove this
> > code.
> 
> I'm okay with it.

Thanks, I've now dropped all of the rt code from the tree.

greg k-h