Re: SUSE question wrt RT locking primitives

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> 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.

AFAICT, that should solve all of the RT induced problems.

Feel free to forward my announce mail to those who made you write that
request :)

Thanks,

	tglx