[linux-audio-user] Ingo's kernel names

[Florian Schmidt]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:11:37 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 09:31, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can someone here maybe shed some light on the naming conventions of
> > Ingos volountary preemption patches? What's the difference between
> > Ix, Jx and Mx [where x is a positiove integer number]?
> 
> A change in the letter represents a major change to the patch, and the
> numbers represent bugfixes within an iteration.  Ingo issues a patch,
> people report any problems or latency issues, and based on this
> feedback he posts a new one.
> 
> For example the -L series moves all hardirq processing to the irqd
> thread.  I had to hack the kernel source to make the soundcard and RTC
> interrupts 'direct'.  In the -M series this can all be done via /proc.
> 
> There is not really any point in using anything but the latest
> version, because the patches are improving every day.
> 
> Lee

Ah, ok.. i thought they were different subsets of the functionality.
Sure, makes sense.. I use 2.6.8-rc2-M5 now and it works quite nicely..
The M5 patch against mm1 didn't really work. I got a warning at compile
time and my mouse didn't work upon bootup [ps/2].. Hmm, i just see i get
this warning with M5 applied to 2.6.8-rc2 directly, too:

  CC      init/main.o
init/main.c: In function `init':
init/main.c:672: warning: implicit declaration of function
`spawn_irq_threads'

Is this serious?


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