Re: [PATCH] leds: trigger: Disable CPU trigger on PREEMPT_RT

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Pavel,

On Mon, Sep 27 2021 at 17:44, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2021-09-27 17:35:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Disabling stuff which is not working well with RT is very much a
>> solution in order to make progress.
>> 
>> We have surely more essential problems to solve than making leds blink
>> and if anyone cares enough about them, then this can be worked on in
>> parallel. That has been disabled on RT for ever and so far nobody
>> complained or cared enough about it.
>
> Would you mind reading and responding to the rest of the email?

Sure. As Sebastian said, its not only the rwlock in led-triggers, it's
the whole call chain down to led_cdec->set_brightness() with a gazillion
of drivers and quite some of them take locks.

> I'm not applying this.

That's fine with me, I just move arch/arm RT support to the very end of
my todo list then.

Thanks for your support!

       tglx



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