Re: Must modules be GPL'ed? (fwd)

Mark Hamstra (mhamstra@wolfenet.com)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:40:26 -0700


Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> At least in theory, the ksyms.c interface attempts to be much less fluid
> that than rest of the kernel interfaces, so there is some prayer of a
> chance that a module which is distributed versus one particular kernel
> release will continue to work with future kernel releases.

How exactly does one use one of these non-source modules in a more recent
kernel than that for which it was originally compiled?

Mark