Kernel 2054 breaks nvidia.ko loading
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Mar 16 02:48:50 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 21:20 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 07:11:26PM -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > On 3/15/06, Jim Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
> > > It seems the kernel from today, 2054, breaks the loading of the nvidia.ko
> > > module. I get the message "nvidia: Unknown symbol print_tainted". Building
> > > of VMware module does not have any problem. The last good kernel that
> > > worked was 2045. Was the symbol deleted?
> >
> > I am seeing a problem with loading the nvidia module as well. Builds
<snip>
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(print_tainted);
> > Looks like the symbol is there and exported. Granted, I'm not an that
> > knowledgeable about such things, but that looks okay to me. Anyone
> > have any ideas what is going on here?
>
> An oversight on my part.
> print_tainted is used in the spinlock macros, so essentially,
> the macro is made GPL-only too. I've reverted that change
> in cvs, but it's too late for the final FC5 image, which is
> already being pushed out to mirrors.
>
Already being pushed to mirrors? The official release time after the
last message on delay is still at least 4 days away (March 20). That
seems awfully early to me.
> It'll be fixed in the very first update kernel for FC5, which
> will likely be within the first few days of release.
>
> Dave
>
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