On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Chris Bergeron <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Building the fglrx module against the current Linux kernel (2.6.20.7
> > as of this e-mail) I'm getting an error:
> >
> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> > 'paravirt_ops'
>
> It should probably be available for non GPL modules too. Otherwise
> they can't even disable interrupts, which seems a bit extreme.
> I will change that in my tree.
Don't do this, this would allow non-GPL modules write access to
paravirt_ops.
Operations required by modules should be exported separately.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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