From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:54591 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755468AbZE1JJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 05:09:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:07:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, dandart@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13317] New: No rt2x00 modules in RT kernels. In-Reply-To: <20090528000253.c731179c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20090528000253.c731179c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 28 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Is there a problem with using rt2x00 kernel modules with realtime kernels? > > In the info page it says that they need the symbol "BROKEN" which is probably > > to tell us that we can't use it. I can't compile it into kernels with an RT > > patch. > > Why? What's wrong with this mix of module and tree? Is there any way to make > > them happily coexist? > > > > Good question, but bugzilla isn't a good place to ask it. > > Presumably there's some bustage in the rt2x00 driver which makes it not > work with -rt kernels. > > Did the -rt guys tell the wireless guys about this? There was some build failure which got fixed in meantime, but I forgot to remove the broken flag. Will do with the next release. Thanks, tglx