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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: GPL-only symbol Error
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:34:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111122223428.GA24568@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAooUDY9HZGYCNx8GUEF51kb5x2nERZ34bp=P9OafzGPuoAidQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Sengottuvelan S wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> ?
> I?have?few symbols with this error especially - sock_recv_timestamp().?Is there
> way to refer this or similar API in my module with MODULE_LICENSE is
> "Proprietary. How do?I know equavalent non-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? APIs to achieve
> similar functionality.

There are none, you need to fix the license of your kernel module.

You do realize the kernel developer community's stance on non-GPL Linux
kernel modules, right?  Any reason why your company feels they can go
against their wishes?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-22 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-22 21:48 GPL-only symbol Error Sengottuvelan S
2011-11-22 21:53 ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-22 22:08   ` Sengottuvelan S
2011-11-22 22:34     ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-11-22 22:35     ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-22 22:44       ` Greg KH
2011-11-23  0:34         ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23  0:51           ` Greg KH
2011-11-23  1:09           ` Graeme Russ
2011-11-23  1:21             ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23  1:39               ` Guillaume Knispel
2011-11-23  2:10                 ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23  2:50                   ` Greg KH
2011-11-23 18:05                     ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23 19:32                       ` Greg KH
2011-11-23  1:56               ` Greg Freemyer
2011-11-23  2:17                 ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23  2:48               ` Greg KH
     [not found]               ` <1322045488.28603.17.camel@thorin>
2011-11-23 18:31                 ` Jeff Haran
2011-11-23 19:28                   ` Greg KH

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