On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:42:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
We do not
want to enable preempt for Fedora yet because it
breaks just too much stuff
What stuff?
just look over all the "fix preempt" stuff that got added to the kernel in
the last 6 months. Sometimes subtle sometimes less so. From a distribution
POV I don't want a potential slew of basically impossible to reproduce
problems, especially this young in 2.6, there are plenty of other problems
already (and before you ask "which", just look at how many bugs got fixed in
the last X weeks for any value of X, and look at say acpi issues).
Yes I understand this puts you into a bit of a bad position, several distros
not enabling preempt means that it gets less testing than it should.
However.. there's only so much issues distros can take and with 2.6 still
quite fresh...
IOW: "we haven't found any such stuff". Sounds fuddy to me.