From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: non-modversions GPLONLY_
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:48:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14683.1034858896@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:49:18 MST." <20021016.174918.125874029.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:49:18 -0700 (PDT),
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>If we export the symbol as GPLONLY_dequeue_signal (for example), yet
>don't use modversions to mangle the GPLONLY_ prefix to the symbol for
>what code actually uses to access the symbol, what makes this work?
>
>Is there some magic in newer versions of modutils which does
>this transparently? :-)
modutils 2.4.10 added support for GPLONLY_ symbols, with fixes though
2.4.14 (2001-10-0 to 2002-02-27). insmod strips the leading "GPLONLY_"
when loading a symbol into the hash table iff the module being loaded
has a GPL license.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-17 12:42 UTC|newest]
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2002-10-17 0:49 David S. Miller
2002-10-17 12:48 ` Keith Owens [this message]
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