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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>.
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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