Bug#847652: nvidia-kernel-dkms fails to compile for rt-kernel 4.8.0-1-rt

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: -1 severity wishlist
Control: -1 tags patch
Control: -1 retitle rt_mutex_destroy is GPL_ONLY unlike mutex_destroy, breaks non-GPL modules
Control: -1 reassign linux-image-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64

On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 20:54 +0100, Norbert Lange wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:59:31 +0000 Luca Boccassi
> <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 upstream
> > 
> > On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 12:40 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > On 2016-12-10 12:16, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > Didn't even know Nvidia driver supported running on the RT
> > > > kernel.
> > > 
> > > IIRC this wasn't supported long ago. Maybe things have changed. I
> > > never
> > > tried it myself.
> > > At least the kernel modules always built without issues against
> > > the -rt
> > > kernels so far.
> > > 
> > > > Is this a regression, or is it the first time you are trying
> > > > this?
> > > 
> > > This is a regression introduced in 370.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Andreas
> > 
> > This is a problem in the kernel code, see this patch:
> > 
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9395795/
> > 
> > I don't think there's anything we can do unless that patch is
> > merged in
> > the kernel.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> This is still a problem with 4.9, any chance of pushing this patch in
> the kernel before stretch is released?
> 
> Kind regards, Norbert

Sorry, but there's nothing the pkg-nvidia team can do about this
problem.

I am reassigning so that we can kindly ask the kernel team if they
would be willing to merge the patch linked in patchwork [1], even
though it's not yet merged upstream.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9395795/
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