Re: Workqueues and the Nvidia driver

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 13:07:16 EST

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:52:55PM -0000, Ashwin Sawant wrote:
> I have successfully compiled the latest Nvidia driver with kernel
> 2.5.44 on a heavily modified RH 7.2 (original compiler) box after
> applying the patch posted to this list previously. However it
> can't be loaded because insmod bombs out saying that, IIRC,
> create_workqueue, flush_workqueue, and a couple of other similar
> symbols are unresolved.

These symbols are exported only to modules with a GPL license.
The nVidia driver does not meet this criteria.

Dave

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