From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755954AbXFIJ0w (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 05:26:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751030AbXFIJ0q (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 05:26:46 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:37533 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934AbXFIJ0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2007 05:26:45 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 05:25:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: kernel/module.c warning re: non-GPL modules looks wrong Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org from kernel/module.c: ... ks = lookup_symbol(name, __start___ksymtab_gpl_future, __stop___ksymtab_gpl_future); if (ks) { if (!gplok) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Symbol %s is being used " "by a non-GPL module, which will not " "be allowed in the future\n", name); printk(KERN_WARNING "Please see the file " "Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt " "in the kernel source tree for more " "details.\n"); ... but there's nothing in the feature removal file that expands on that issue. (there *is* an entry regarding *unused* symbols, but that doesn't seem to address the above.) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================