Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:57:35 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols??? |
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John Levon writes: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:17:39PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > > > If a symbol has been exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL then it appears as > > unresolved for modules that do not have a GPL compatible MODULE_LICENCE > > string. So when a module without a GPL compatible MODULE_LICENCE gets > > an unresolved symbol, I print that message as a hint to the user. I > > thought the response was obvious, but looks like I need to expand the > > hint text even further. > > How is the name mangled in the _GPL case ? Can't this be detected explicitly ? > > richard, since ac seems OK with it ...
OK, I've applied your patch. Let's hope lusers don't start editing out the "tainted" string when emailing Oops reports.
BTW: I had to edit after applying your patch: it didn't conform to the Style[tm].
Regards,
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