From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Bowen <zbw1983@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATI driver conflict with LOCK_STAT
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:08:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250755699.8282.115.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9D727BD-78FC-4D85-9841-34A8F41613BB@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:04 +0800, Bowen wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I just found that I can't compile my ATI driver. I have downloaded a
> ATI driver from their web site, but I can't compile it successfully,
> it reported "FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses
> GPL-only symbol
> 'lock_acquire'",
>
> I found when I close LOCK_STAT, I can compiled ATI driver
> successfully. And I also try to remove GPL declaration from
> "lock_acquire, lock_release, rcu_lock_map, lockdep_init_map", I can
> also use ATI driver. So does anybody meet same problem? Should we
> remove GPL limitation from those functions in kernel? Or just make
> ATI driver conflict with LOCK_STAT?
Yay, I broke binary junk, +1 to me!!
Seriously though, use the opensource driver already :-)
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