The realtime preemption pull request

On September 19, Thomas Gleixner delivered the pull request for therealtime preemption enablement patches to Linus Torvalds - in printed form,wrapped in gold, with a ribbon, as Torvalds had requested. It was asignificant milestone, marking the completion of a project that required20years of effort. Congratulations are due to everybody involved.

Torvalds acted onthe pull request the following morning.