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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:42:32 +0100
From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] __ipipe_root_status exported GPL only but used to be
 not GPL only and is breaking other code
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To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:37:47PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I just encountered an issue compiling an external kernel module which
> compiled fine with 3.0 kernel but with new kernels I get a linker error
> about __ipipe_root_status
> 
> This used to be just EXPORT_SYMBOL, but not is EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL which
> breaks the compile.  I am pretty sure module does not call anything in
> the kernel flagged EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, so it must be something ipipe
> gets involved with somehow that is making it fail.  I haven't traced
> down exactly how it is happening yet.
> 
> Is there any reason this symbol export was changed in newer versions?

Xenomai does not support modules with non GPL license.

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					    Gilles.