Re: GPL-only symbols issue

[Ram Pai]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > Sam,
> > 
> > would it seem reasonable a request to detect imports of GPL-only
> > symbols by non-GPL modules also at build time rather than only at run
> > time, and at least warn about such?
> 
> Ram has some tools that might catch this kind of thing.  He's posted his
> scripts to lkml in the past, try looking in the archives.

The patches are at

http://sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/kernelpatch

The patch of interest for you would be modpost.patch
I have a script and some code that can poke into a given .ko file and
warn against symbols that don't match what the kernel exports. 

I can post that code if there is interest in that functionality,
RP

> 
> thanks,

> greg k-h

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