Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932503AbWEINNZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 09:13:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932505AbWEINNZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 09:13:25 -0400 Received: from roadrunner-base.egenera.com ([63.160.166.46]:12428 "EHLO roadrunner-base.egenera.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932503AbWEINNY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 09:13:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 09:11:21 -0400 From: "Philip R. Auld" To: Ram Pai Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL-only symbols issue Message-ID: <20060509131121.GJ30333@vienna.egenera.com> References: <445F0B6F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20060509042500.GA4226@kroah.com> <1147154238.7203.62.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1147154238.7203.62.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1461 Lines: 47 Hi, Rumor has it that on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:57:18PM -0700 Ram Pai said: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. > > The patches are at > > http://sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/kernelpatch > > The patch of interest for you would be modpost.patch > I have a script and some code that can poke into a given .ko file and > warn against symbols that don't match what the kernel exports. > > I can post that code if there is interest in that functionality, I'd love to see it. Thanks, Phil > RP > > > > > 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/ - 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/