From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: chris@pcburn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: GPL-incompatible Module Error Message
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:07:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070420120720.GW10338@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73vefr4y1c.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Building the fglrx module against the current Linux kernel (2.6.20.7
> > as of this e-mail) I'm getting an error:
> >
> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> > 'paravirt_ops'
>
> It should probably be available for non GPL modules too. Otherwise
> they can't even disable interrupts, which seems a bit extreme.
> I will change that in my tree.
Don't do this, this would allow non-GPL modules write access to
paravirt_ops.
Operations required by modules should be exported separately.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 22:36 Chris Bergeron
2007-04-19 22:58 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-04-19 23:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-20 1:04 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-04-20 1:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-20 12:07 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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