Re: Preempt-RT patch for 2.6.25


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think dropping ports (temporarily) is perfectly reasonable. There is
no reason to hamper forward development just to keep old architecture
ports in the tree.

You are missing the point: a lot of people (those who wrote the brunt of
the -rt tree and who maintained it over the years and who maintain it
today) think it's not reasonable and have stated it very clearly to you
that it's a bug. Keeping things alive is not preventing forward
development.

So please fix this bug in your refactoring of the queue, so that your
contribution can be utilized/accepted. There's no obligation on
maintainers to accept buggy contributions. There's no obligation for you
to fix this bug in your queue either of course - it's up to you whether
you want to work with the maintainers so that your contribution can be
accepted.

Since it's code that you regard stale it shouldnt be all that hard to
fix it up - in general it's much easier to fix a bug than to talk it out
of existence, even if you disagree with a maintainer about how
significant a bug is.

This issue is clearly not central to your refactoring (it cannot be,
it's all about stale code), so by inflexibly insisting on your opinion
against the (well-explained) opinion of the maintainers you'll just
waste their time and make it more difficult for them to work with you,
for no good reason.

Ingo
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