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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:07:16 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Ashwin Sawant <sawant_ashwin@rediffmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Workqueues and the Nvidia driver
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:52:55PM -0000, Ashwin  Sawant wrote:
 > I have successfully compiled the latest Nvidia driver with kernel 
 > 2.5.44 on a heavily modified RH 7.2 (original compiler) box  after 
 > applying the patch posted to this list previously. However it 
 > can't be loaded because insmod bombs out saying that, IIRC, 
 > create_workqueue, flush_workqueue, and a couple of other similar 
 > symbols are unresolved.

These symbols are exported only to modules with a GPL license.
The nVidia driver does not meet this criteria.

		Dave

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