From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767064AbXDTMHQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:07:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767069AbXDTMHQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:07:16 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:56674 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767066AbXDTMHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:07:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:07:20 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: chris@pcburn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: GPL-incompatible Module Error Message Message-ID: <20070420120720.GW10338@stusta.de> References: <4627EED5.6020800@pcburn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Chris Bergeron 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed