Re: RT patch acceptance

Nicolas Pitre
2005-06-01T21:30:42Z

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Why don't you run grep yourself, this is only drivers/
>
[...]
> ./mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: local_irq_disable();
> ./mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: local_irq_disable();

I can speak at least for those two since I added them and they are
indeed OK with RT and actually needed even with RT.

> As said even if all the above is audited, it _can_ break over time,
> while it wouldn't break with RTAI/rtlinux even if you infinite loop and
> hang in there.

Actualy it's RTAI/rtlinux which is broken wrt the above IRQ disable.
See for yourself when they're used and watch RTAI/rtlinux crash.

Nicolas