Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751369AbWEIE0j (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 00:26:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751371AbWEIE0j (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 00:26:39 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:16837 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751369AbWEIE0j (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 00:26:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:25:00 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jan Beulich Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ram Pai Subject: Re: GPL-only symbols issue Message-ID: <20060509042500.GA4226@kroah.com> References: <445F0B6F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <445F0B6F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 18 On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > Sam, > > would it seem reasonable a request to detect imports of GPL-only > symbols by non-GPL modules also at build time rather than only at run > time, and at least warn about such? Ram has some tools that might catch this kind of thing. He's posted his scripts to lkml in the past, try looking in the archives. thanks, greg k-h - 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/