My apologies to all for mis-remembering what package the issue was relating to - it was with an iscsi target (IET, which is certainly GPL!). I was working with both openssl and IET when I had this problem, and for some reason I associated it with openssl instead of IET.
Sorry for the extra noise! (Since I mis-remembered the kernel module that I was having trouble with, unless someone wants to discuss the issues of cross-compiling kernels (and executables) and getting GPL-only symbol exporting to work, I expect this is my last posting here on this subject unless others wish to discuss cross-compiling and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here). If anyone cares to know what actually is the story: IET (iSCSI Enterprise Target) uses the crypto interface. I am cross-compiling to arm/xscale - the kernel using the 'arm-2006q3' toolchain, and executables and modules using the 'armv5l-linux' toolchain. But the resulting ietd fails to load because it cannot 'find' the crypto symbols. (If I change the export to non-GPL and rebuild the kernel, ietd loads fine, so it's a "cannot resolve symbol" issue, not a binary incompatibility issue). After some fooling around, my current theory that my problem is related to the fact that this is a cross-compiled kernel. I grepped every single file in my kernel build tree, and no non-source file anywhere has 'crypto_register_alg' inside it. And I don't see ANY of the other crypto GPL symbols in the symbol table! (System.map) So, I'm trying to find anyone who has cross-compiled a kernel for xscale and been able to load GPL kernel modules which used the GPL kernel symbols. Or, put another way - I want to find out if KERNEL_EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL works under a cross-compile environment. (I am using 'arm-2006q3' toolchain) The first part of my initial email follows, but changed to fit reality. Thanks! Rusty (the original poster) -----Original Message----- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Carruth, Rusty Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:43 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: compilation problem for xscale. I've compiled a GPL module (IET) to run on an xscale, and it worked fine except for one major issue - I could not load the <resulting module due to GPL label on certain crypto symbols.> ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
