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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:57:35 -0700
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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: GPLONLY kernel symbols???
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John Levon writes:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:17:39PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> > If a symbol has been exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL then it appears as
> > unresolved for modules that do not have a GPL compatible MODULE_LICENCE
> > string.  So when a module without a GPL compatible MODULE_LICENCE gets
> > an unresolved symbol, I print that message as a hint to the user.  I
> > thought the response was obvious, but looks like I need to expand the
> > hint text even further.
> 
> How is the name mangled in the _GPL case ? Can't this be detected explicitly ?
> 
> richard, since ac seems OK with it ...

OK, I've applied your patch. Let's hope lusers don't start editing out
the "tainted" string when emailing Oops reports.

BTW: I had to edit after applying your patch: it didn't conform to the
Style[tm].

				Regards,

					Richard....
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