From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
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 21:17:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027191728.GA6897@vana.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027153715.GB13991@kroah.com>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:37:16AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
VMware's vmnet is broken by this too. VMware was asked by RedHat to
add udev compatibility to the code, and now you are saying that both
RedHat and VMware were wasting resources for nothing, as you decided that
you'll turn existing interface into GPL only without providing
alternative way?
> > 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.
Why? You have more rights to the sources now than with GPL,
why we should restrict ourself?
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 13:50 2.6.10-mm1, class_simple_* and GPL addition Norbert Preining
2004-10-27 15:37 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <1098890583.6990.20.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>
2004-10-27 17:08 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-27 19:17 ` Petr Vandrovec [this message]
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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