I'm sending this on mostly because it was a bit of a pain to track down, and hopefully it will save time if anyone else hits this while playing with the -rt kernel. It is NOT the right way to fix things, so please don't even think of applying this patch (unless you need it, in your own local tree :-). One of these days when we have time to breath we'll look into fixing this the right way, if someone doesn't beat us to it first. :-) - Ted