Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 10/01/2013 08:16:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 01.10.2013 10:00, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in "good" tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks  ati-drivers
> > again (as always in the past).
> > Does anybody know about a patch to make
> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers:legacy
> > compile with linux-3.12-rc3 ?
> >
> > Trying to emerge ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 (currently the only legacy
> > driver)
> > with 3.12-rc3 gives
> >
> >   MODPOST 1 modules
> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only  
> symbol
> > 'acpi_bus_get_device'
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut
> >
> 
> so you are using a driver meant for stable (old) systems, with a pre
> release kernel - and you don't even know what do do with that message?

I'm quite sure there are a lot of things which you don't known either.

> Does that do no seem a bit silly? hm?

Thanks for this compliment!

> acpi_bus_get_device is gpl only. You can undo that. If you want.
> 
> But seriously, what is wrong with using stable releases like 3.10.x?  
> If
> you use ati-drivers, you don't need the amd driver improvements in  
> 3.11
> or 3.12.

There are two points here:
- first I consider it as my contribution to GenToo to help testing.
   The problem with the 3.12 prerelease will definitely continue with  
the main release
   coming in about 4 weeks.

- This 3.12 prerelease has a lot of BTRFS pataches. Since I'm using  
BTRFS for most of
   my file systems, I like to have the most recent fixes.

"Thank you"
Helmut