Re: [PATCH -rt] disable building all staging drivers

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 13:24:59 EST


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:15:15PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:28:02AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:38:38PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > I know that at least COMEDI and RT2870 are broken with -rt,
> > >
> > > I didn't know this, has anyone sent me a bug report? What in -rt causes
> > > these drivers to break?
> > >
> > > > but Thomas requested disabling all of staging. He's the maintainer.
> > >
> > > This seems like a patch to ensure that the staging drivers never get a
> > > chance to be fixed for any potential -rt issues. How about just sending
> > > me bug reports instead?
> > I cannot reproduce the failure I saw for RT2870 at the moment.
> OK, hit again:
>
> 17:02:43 E: ERROR: "there_is_no_init_MUTEX_LOCKED_for_RT_semaphores" [drivers/staging/rt2870/rt2870sta.ko] undefined!

What needs to be done in the rt2870 driver to resolve this issue?

thanks,

greg k-h
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