Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2006 09:11:21 -0400 | From | "Philip R. Auld" <> | Subject | Re: GPL-only symbols issue |
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Hi,
Rumor has it that on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:57:18PM -0700 Ram Pai said: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > Sam, > > > > > > would it seem reasonable a request to detect imports of GPL-only > > > symbols by non-GPL modules also at build time rather than only at run > > > time, and at least warn about such? > > > > Ram has some tools that might catch this kind of thing. He's posted his > > scripts to lkml in the past, try looking in the archives. > > The patches are at > > http://sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/kernelpatch > > The patch of interest for you would be modpost.patch > I have a script and some code that can poke into a given .ko file and > warn against symbols that don't match what the kernel exports. > > I can post that code if there is interest in that functionality,
I'd love to see it.
Thanks,
Phil
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