Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL-only symbols issue | From | Ram Pai <> | Date | Mon, 08 May 2006 22:57:18 -0700 |
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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, RP
> > thanks,
> greg k-h
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