From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: SUSE question wrt RT locking primitives Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <1334328819.13006.24.camel@marge.simpson.net> References: <1321235083-21756-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <1321235083-21756-2-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <20111114165148.GB2372@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1321303871.5011.6.camel@frodo> <1334295256.9525.60.camel@marge.simpson.net> <1334321895.23924.356.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Gleixner , rt-users To: Steven Rostedt Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47362 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754111Ab2DMOx6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:53:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1334321895.23924.356.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 08:58 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 07:34 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > So that's where the question comes from. Life would be easier if RT > > didn't trigger the Dr. Jeckle -> Mr. Hyde thing. You know all about > > where what happens to which locks, so I'll just snip what I had quoted > > and needlessly commented on to keep this as short as possible ;-) > > I have no problem with making those non-GPL, as the original stance of > -rt back in 2005 was to not have -rt be any different than the vanilla > kernel in that regards. But I don't know if that policy changed since > then, nor am I the one that has the authority to remove the GPL tags > from those functions. As timing would have it, Thomas changed to ones that the nVidia driver griped about before I even got the query sent. I just built and ran it, it's happy in unmolested form. Dunno if this will make all RT module grumbles go away, but the nVidia ones should be toast. -Mike