Re: [PATCH] Add note that lockdep is not allowed with non-GPL modules

[Petr Vandrovec]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:20:53 +0200, Petr Vandrovec said:
>
> > > Lock validor found a bug in NVidia driver, film at 11.
>
>
> It almost certainly didn't, as you have to do some major ugly and evil
> things to get the NVidia driver to build (it won't pass modpost if the
> kernel is built with lockdep due to the GPL-only exports that get sucked in).
>
>
> > I have no idea how NVidia managed to work around that problem, but 
> > VMware modules suddenly depend on this GPL-only symbol, although nothing 
> > in the module sources refers to lockdep (same sources which worked 
> > yesterday are being used).
>
> It doesn't reference it directly - it gets sucked in via a #define.

VMware code is shoot down due to use of init_waitqueue_head().  It is 
now virtually GPL-only because it is inlined and uses GPL-only function 
lockdep_init_map :-(
						Petr
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