On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 07:34 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Greetings, > > SUSE is looking for a straight up answer, I've been tasked with asking > the question: can RT maintainers be convinced to fix the RT tree such > that locking primitives do not switch from 'OK' to TABOO' at the flick > of a config switch? It is understood that "yes" may have undesirable > side-effects :) > > Background: > > The migrate_enable/disable() EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL thing came up yesterday > again with yet another customer stuck using yet another proprietary > driver for proprietary hardware. The choice for the customer/user is > use what exists, knock on proprietary doors, or go look at platforms > where the proprietary gizmo they need or want to use just works. > > 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. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
