Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261948AbVCaEUb (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:20:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261989AbVCaEUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:20:30 -0500 Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.203]:29253 "EHLO mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261948AbVCaERT (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:17:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:16:46 -0500 From: Nick Orlov Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3: class_simple API In-reply-to: <200503310319.j2V3JhXJ009858@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mail-followup-to: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <20050331041646.GA24665@nikolas.hn.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i References: <20050327180431.GA4327@nikolas.hn.org> <200503310319.j2V3JhXJ009858@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1742 Lines: 45 On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:19:42PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:04:31 EST, Nick Orlov said: > > > Problem is that the latest bk-driver-core patch included in the 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 > > removes class_simple API without providing EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed (as opposed to > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) alternative. > > > > As the result I don't see a way how out-of-the-kernel non-GPL drivers > > (nvidia in my case) could be fixed. > > Umm.. try running the latest drivers? > > [~]2 uname -a > Linux turing-police.cc.vt.edu 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 #1 PREEMPT Sat Mar 26 22:07:50 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [~]2 lsmod | grep nvidia > nvidia 3912636 14 > agpgart 25672 2 nvidia,intel_agp > [~]2 grep -i nvidia /var/log/kernmsg > Mar 30 21:58:19 turing-police kernel: [4294721.402000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > Mar 30 21:58:19 turing-police kernel: [4294721.434000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7167 Fri Feb 25 09:08:22 PST 2005 > I _am_ using the latest NVIDIA driver: nick@nikolas:~$ dmesg | grep NVIDIA nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7167 Fri Feb 25 09:08:22 PST 2005 nick@nikolas:~$ ll /lib/modules/`uname -r`/nvidia total 4315 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4399395 2005-03-27 12:29 nvidia.ko If you are not relying on udev being able to create nvidia device nodes you are not affected. -- With best wishes, Nick Orlov. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/