The worst part wasn’t Linus rejecting the patch (rightly imho), but him dismissing RT as a small enthusiast’s project. There’s a huge industry depending on this

The worst part wasn’t Linus rejecting the patch (rightly imho), but him dismissing RT as a small enthusiast’s project. There’s a huge industry depending on this. Like industrial control’s, etc. For context, here is the rebase of the RT patch set on top of the current Linux release. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/log/?h=v6.0-rt11-rebase https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-... The list used to be much much longer. A lot of work is already in the mainline. It remains - printk - scheduler - small fry / driver fixes Though RT will require constant “gardening” also after being fully mainlined. There’s an ongoing push to educate kernel devs how to not break RT in the future.