[aur-general] Realtime kernel package name for 3.0

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Sat Jul 23 06:24:08 EDT 2011


Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2011-07-23 12:08:52 +0200:
> On 23 July 2011 09:49, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> > Date: 2011/7/22
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0-rt1
> > To: LKML <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users at vger.kernel.org>
> >
> >
> > Dear RT Folks,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce the 3.0-rt1 release.
> >
> > Changes versus 3.0-rc7-rt0:
> >
> >  * Update to Linus final 3.0 release
> >
> >  * RTC bugfixes (scheduled for mainline/stable)
> >
> >  * Long standing (rt only) timer_list bug (see
> >    timers-avoid-the-base-null-otptimization-on-rt.patch in the split
> >    out quilt queue)
> >
> >  * Minor non exciting fixes all over the place
> >
> > Known issues:
> >
> >  * Some weird "console=..." commandline + config dependent
> >    interactions which have been not yet investigated down to their
> >    root cause. Result in a boot hang. YMMV
> >
> > Patch against 3.0 can be found here:
> >
> >  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patch-3.0-rt1.patch.bz2
> >
> > The split quilt queue is available at:
> >
> >  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/patches-3.0-rt1.tar.bz2
> 
> 
> This calls for a new package name. The standard kernel will be named
> "linux", so the obvious options are "linux-rt" and "linux-realtime".
> Tell us which you would prefer or suggest a different suffix.

How about linux-preempt_rt since this includes the actual name of the
patch. In case other rt patches exist this naming would make obvious
which one is meant. Otherwise I vote for the simpler linux-rt.



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