Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:07:20 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: GPL-incompatible Module Error Message |
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com> writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > Building the fglrx module against the current Linux kernel (2.6.20.7 > > as of this e-mail) I'm getting an error: > > > > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol > > 'paravirt_ops' > > It should probably be available for non GPL modules too. Otherwise > they can't even disable interrupts, which seems a bit extreme. > I will change that in my tree.
Don't do this, this would allow non-GPL modules write access to paravirt_ops.
Operations required by modules should be exported separately.
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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