In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Jeffrey Hutzelma n writes: >> while on this subject, it looks like it will be necessary to build a >> complete module to test for certain features. the latest bleeding edge >> kernel has apparently made sys_open an exported gpl symbol. so while the >> symbol is present, it cant be used by osi_probe since openafs is not gpl. > >That's OK; the probe code checks at runtime to see what symbols are >available to it. It won't be able to use the exit+open method on kernels >which don't export sys_open, but that's OK; it'll just try a different >method.
so you would think, but their kung fu is stronger: ... CC [M] /scratch/chas/tmp/openafs/trunk/2.6.17/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.17-MP/AFS_component_version_number.o CC [M] /scratch/chas/tmp/openafs/trunk/2.6.17/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.17-MP/osi_probe.o LD [M] /scratch/chas/tmp/openafs/trunk/2.6.17/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.17-MP/libafs.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module libafs.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'sys_open' _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
