Re: [RFC PATCH] sysfs: Add /sys/kernel/realtime entry

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 11:54:27 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-rt-users,dev.linux.lists.driver-core,dev.linux.lists.linux-rt-devel
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:46:19 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the very least, it's not ok as it's not documented in
> Documentation/ABI/ :)
> 
> But really, why is this needed?  Userspace shouldn't care, right?

User space most definitely does care if it's running on a real-time kernel
or not. Otherwise it may not be able to make its deadlines.

But I believe a more appropriate way is via uname, which I believe it
already does what we want:

  $ uname -a
  Linux bxtest 7.2.0-rc2-test+ #16 SMP PREEMPT_RT Thu Jul  9 11:50:36 EDT 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

-- Steve