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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Stephen Williams <steveicarus@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") not working for me
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:18:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111007181826.GA20210@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO3ZPq2RUjW7VQQSoN-S7QDuTYdCMuDfoykHSeXwr19MTnCb_A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:20:46AM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Stephen Williams <steveicarus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have some large drivers for use in embedded arm systems, and
> > I want them to be GPL, because I want to use some symbols exported
> > as GPL, and also because I just wanna. But it is not working for
> > me. I've attached my Makefile. I'm building from outside the kernel
> > tree, but that should be OK. (right?) I'm using the following script to
> > actually build:
> 
> More information: I can see that the vidfor.o object file, indeed
> none of my *.o files, have a .modinfo section. In other situations
> where the licens stamp works, the .modinfo section is present.
> I'm using the CodeSourcery build of the arm toolchain, and in
> the simple cases (module that is a single source file) the
> modinfo information works. Hmm...

I lost the original mail...
Could you try to post the output of make V=2 when you build your module
and the Makefile fragment again.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 22:30 Stephen Williams
2011-10-07  9:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-07 17:20 ` Stephen Williams
2011-10-07 18:18   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2011-10-08  0:36     ` Stephen Williams
2011-10-09  8:17       ` Sam Ravnborg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-06 22:02 Stephen Williams

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