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.
-- Soren Stoutner Small Business Tech Solutions 623-262-6169 so...@smallbusinesstech.net Sent from my cell phone. ow...@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 <b...@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 <b...@decadent.org.uk> by replying to this email. -- 661306: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661306 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems 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. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. 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
