It needs to be updated to remove the BKL because it is trying to use it. It has already been updated by upstream and just needs to be recompiled in the Debian package. Please see the link in the original bug report.



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owner@bugs.debian.org wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the firmware-realtek package:

#661306: firmware-realtek: rtl8192cu needs to be updated for changes in the Big Kernel Lock

It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.

Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
better one in a separate message then please contact Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> by
replying to this email.


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On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 00:45 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> Package:
firmware-realtek

Not a bug in this package.

> Version: 0.35
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> rtl8192cu needs to be updated to reflect changes in the Big Kernel
> Lock. Aparently upstream has already made the necessary source code
> changes.

What? The BKL was removed in Linux 3.0.

> There is a lengthy discussion of these changes at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/852190

Refers to out-of-tree driver.

Ben.

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Package: firmware-realtek
Version: 0.35
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

rtl8192cu needs to be updated to reflect changes in the Big Kernel Lock. Aparently upstream has
already made the necessary source code changes.

There is a lengthy discussion of these changes at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/852190


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

firmware-realtek depends on no packages.

firmware-realtek recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-realtek suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.100
ii linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 [linux-image] 3.2.4-1

-- no debconf information

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 08:19 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> It needs to be updated to remove the BKL because it is trying to use
> it.

No, only the out-of-tree driver has this problem.

> It has already been updated by upstream and just needs to be
> recompiled in the Debian package. Please see the link in the original
> bug report.

No, there is no separate package of this driver.

Ben.

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Lowery's Law:
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Ben,

On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:41:19 AM Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 08:19 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > It needs to be updated to remove the BKL because it is trying to use
> > it.
>
> No, only the out-of-tree driver has this problem.

I didn't realize there were two different drivers. I thought they were both
the same.

I have been having issues with the driver in the Debian package. I will do
some more extensive testing to try to isolate the issues and submit a new bug
in the next few weeks.

Soren

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