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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-mm1, class_simple_* and GPL addition
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:37:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027153715.GB13991@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027135052.GE32199@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Andrew!
> 
> The change from 
> 	EXPORT_SYMBOL
> to
> 	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> for class_simple_* makes the nvidia module useless as it uses several:
> nvidia: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_add
> nvidia: Unknown symbol class_simple_destroy
> nvidia: Unknown symbol class_simple_device_remove
> nvidia: Unknown symbol class_simple_create

I think these changes are only in the Gentoo modified version of the
driver, right?  I don't think that nvidia wrote the driver that way.

> I don't want to start a flame war and long discussion, just want to ask
> wether this change (to _GPL) was intended,

Yes it was.

> and if yes, if there is a way to fix nvidia kernel modules (or others)
> using this device management interface.

Get them to change the license on their code.

Good luck,

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-27 13:50 Norbert Preining
2004-10-27 15:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1098890583.6990.20.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>
2004-10-27 17:08     ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-27 19:17   ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-27 19:55     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-27 21:21       ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-28  1:12   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-10-29 20:55     ` Greg KH
2004-10-29 22:06       ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-10-30 11:44       ` Dave Airlie
2004-10-30 14:44       ` Fabio Coatti
2004-11-01 22:31         ` Greg KH
2004-11-09 23:12           ` Luke Maurer
2004-11-10 10:32             ` Fabio Coatti
2004-12-16 17:50           ` Chris Wright
2004-12-16 18:57             ` Greg KH
2004-10-27 21:30 ` Dave Airlie

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