The tp_smapi driver provides for Battery charge/discharge control and improved stability for the HDAPS driver. However the latest version (as of writing 0.40) does not work with a real-time patched Linux-kernel.
The problem is that rt-linux uses a new mechanism for mutex-locking, which allows preemption and is incompatible with current Linux-mainline. In order to get the tp_smapi driver compile with rt-linux you need to replace the MUTEX locks. I came up with a simple patch that applies to tp_smapi 0.40 to just do that.
Tested with linux 2.6.31.6-rt19. More information on tp_smapi can be found at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
Enjoy.
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Thank you so much! I was not able to solve this, but with you patch it runs like a charm :D
awesome \o/
Your answer was just what I nedeed. It's made my day!