From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381481381F3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B6B6E0B62; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de (mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.5.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B664E0A6F for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:19:33 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,1019,1371074400"; d="scan'208";a="151975472" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2013 14:19:30 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r92CJUQW003644 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487951643 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:19:30 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1380697370.31512.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <524BC602. 9030105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <524BC602.9030105@gmail.com> (from alan.mckinnon@gmail.com on Wed Oct 2 09:06:42 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.5.1-75-g9ac8512 Message-Id: <1380716370.2424.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c7d7ce9b-90f5-43aa-ae3e-10872e6f9045 X-Archives-Hash: 2654eed8a0ad2edef54516484b8317a6 On 10/02/2013 09:06:42 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/10/2013 09:02, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > 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 =20 > legacy > >> > driver) > >> > with 3.12-rc3 gives > >> > > >> > MODPOST 1 modules > >> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only =20 > symbol > >> > 'acpi_bus_get_device' > >> > > >> > Many thanks for a hint, > >> > Helmut > >> > > >> > >> so you are using a driver meant for stable (old) systems, with a =20 > pre > >> release kernel - and you don't even know what do do with that =20 > message? > > > > I'm quite sure there are a lot of things which you don't known =20 > 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 =20 > 3.10.x? If > >> you use ati-drivers, you don't need the amd driver improvements in =20 > 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 =20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > Calm down boys. >=20 >=20 > Helmut, the problem is that you are trying to use ATI's proprietary =20 > code > with GPL code in the kernel. >=20 > The kernel devs do not want you to do that and that is their right. >=20 > What you should have done in your mail is indicate that you read the > error message and understand it, and why you want to continue > regradless. Then you should have mentioned what Google told you about > the problem, or something to show what you already did to help =20 > yourself. >=20 > As it stands you post is really just asking someone else to do your > homework for you and that you are too lazy to do it yourself. I'm sure > that's not want you are really doing, it just looks that way. >=20 Hi Alan, the only "fix" I have found with Google is a patch to the kernel itself. This works but I don't like it. Up to now, all similar problems in the past have been fixed by patches =20 to the ati-drivers. But I haven't found such a patch, perhaps it's impossible to fix it by =20 only patching the ati-drivers, this time. Linus makes our life a bit harder. Helmut =