Re: ATI driver conflict with LOCK_STAT

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 20 2009 - 04:08:25 EST


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:04 +0800, Bowen wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I just found that I can't compile my ATI driver. I have downloaded a
> ATI driver from their web site, but I can't compile it successfully,
> it reported "FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses
> GPL-only symbol
> 'lock_acquire'",
>
> I found when I close LOCK_STAT, I can compiled ATI driver
> successfully. And I also try to remove GPL declaration from
> "lock_acquire, lock_release, rcu_lock_map, lockdep_init_map", I can
> also use ATI driver. So does anybody meet same problem? Should we
> remove GPL limitation from those functions in kernel? Or just make
> ATI driver conflict with LOCK_STAT?

Yay, I broke binary junk, +1 to me!!

Seriously though, use the opensource driver already :-)
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