[linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.18, -19 etc

Now that mingo's (et al) RT patches are coming into mainstream, what is the corporate rationale behind it and the running order of urgency? I am fishing for some information on; if it is the disk-drives, the network drivers, the usb stack or something else that I am too ignorant to have noticed? What worries me the most, is corner-cases on network, blocking multiple cpu's. FYI: I have been asked to set up a bunch of Xeon boxens to serve a VPN over WiFi, they/we are currently using kernel 2.6.17 (debian etch as of today.) So this is not stricly about audio, but I would guess all of us would like some clarification here. After all, we have followed the evolvement of these patches for quite a few years by now. -- mvh // Jens M Andreasen