From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261544AbVFMW16 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:27:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261553AbVFMW0d (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:26:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.lnxw.com ([207.21.185.24]:15364 "EHLO smtp.lnxw.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261515AbVFMWYW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:24:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:29:09 -0700 To: Karim Yaghmour Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" , dwalker@mvista.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Lee Revell , Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, pmarques@grupopie.com, bruce@andrew.cmu.edu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@muc.de, sdietrich@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread Message-ID: <20050613222909.GA880@nietzsche.lynx.com> References: <42ACE2D3.9080106@opersys.com> <20050613144022.GA1305@us.ibm.com> <42ADE334.4030002@opersys.com> <1118693033.2725.21.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <42ADEC0E.4020907@opersys.com> <1118694495.2725.32.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <42AE01EA.10905@opersys.com> <42AE04AE.8070107@opersys.com> <20050613221810.GA820@nietzsche.lynx.com> <42AE0875.8010001@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AE0875.8010001@opersys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Bill Huey (hui) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:28:05PM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Been there done that. This is not about leadership, it's about > equilibrium. I'm tell'n you that there is no way that this patch is going to die. The commercial vendors and the general community is going use this once they figure out what it can do and there will be no stopping it. You can bet on some body extremity that this will happen. It's inevitable and ultimately the future of Linux whether they like it or not. bill