@Brian,

Sorry that after all your efforts you ended up going to the "easy"
(though questionable) solution. Since there is no reason to expect
Broadcom to fully GPL the driver, I guess the only solution (besides
using the in-kernel driver, which to me -- bcm4313 -- is still a no-go)
would be patching modpost.c (which -- theorically -- solves the
compilation issue, but perhaps not the run-time (modprobe) issue).

I guess this is all due to some -- political -- decision of the kernel
people (Linus), so I'm not sure if/how we can deal with this, other than
asking Linus.

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Title:
  bcmwl-kernel-source fails to build on lowlatency kernel [FATAL:
  modpost: GPL-incompatible module wl.ko uses GPL-only symbol
  '__rcu_read_unlock']

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