Date:	Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:02:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To:	Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>
Subject: Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> However, it turns out, as best we can gather, that you were not happy
> with the basic structure of some or all of Ingo's low latency work.
> [...]

*I* was unhappy with the structure of that patch to begin with. The patch
is ugly and unacceptable (read: a kludge) for inclusion into the
mainstream kernel, period. I also said that i'll send a similar patch for
2.4 as well, once the 2.4 codebase stabilizes. (right now we still have a
high flux of fixes coming in - but i'll soon port the patch to 2.4)

so please, do not make this appear as some 'fault' of Linus. Linus is
rightfully (and thankfully) watching the quality of the mainstream kernel,
and ugly patches are simply not accepted, regardless of the usefulness of
a given patch. In fact it's my fault of not submitting those patches in a
saner way. I'll fix this in the coming weeks.

	Ingo


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