Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: non-modversions GPLONLY_ | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:48:16 +1000 |
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:49:18 -0700 (PDT), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: >If we export the symbol as GPLONLY_dequeue_signal (for example), yet >don't use modversions to mangle the GPLONLY_ prefix to the symbol for >what code actually uses to access the symbol, what makes this work? > >Is there some magic in newer versions of modutils which does >this transparently? :-)
modutils 2.4.10 added support for GPLONLY_ symbols, with fixes though 2.4.14 (2001-10-0 to 2002-02-27). insmod strips the leading "GPLONLY_" when loading a symbol into the hash table iff the module being loaded has a GPL license.
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