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- Subject: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:47:17 -0700
- Message-id: <20070418214717.32022.24998.reportbug@windlord.stanford.edu>
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.20-2 Severity: important The 2.6.20 kernels in unstable for 686 and k7 have CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled. This apparently redefines various operations widely used by kernel modules (or included via inlined functions) to redirect through a paravirts_ops table, but the paravirts_ops table is marked GPL-only. This produces errors like: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'paravirt_ops' I've seen this problem with both nvidia (non-free) and openafs (free, but under a non-GPL license -- its code predates the existence of Linux). Note that these modules are not intentionally using anything related to paravirt themselves; it looks like the paravirt.h header file is selectively overriding functions that are pulled into the modules and which those modules were previously using without problems. This problem does not occur on AMD64. According to: http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg03856.html this was done because the code is experimental and in flux and the API will change. Given that and its effect on out-of-tree modules, could you disable this option for the time being until the interfaces stabilize? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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- Subject: paravirt_ops symbol is no longer GPL-only
- From: Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:51:57 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 1185619918.6974.47.camel@xerces>
Version: 2.6.22-2 paravirt_ops is no longer GPL-only in 2.6.22. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078Attachment: signature.asc
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