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 EE99F1381F3 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D500FE0968; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f45.google.com (mail-wg0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5A28E0942 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id y10so2159019wgg.24 for ; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:58:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=NMS/SEsfSl+ejI74TUfemmSvwKSVXeJ/F4ls+rcX9Q8=; b=j9N/uaUGwrFcJKIWIGwI2tW7MKMHQde6XAzpeByGq52/ysaYekmmyWECmRrQnwK77T YXxYuXNZ2tIpurpdnEq9TZ3hfNLrwcSJzIqrdf8KQJbifj5YbmzmZhqpozXi4c78zSS1 6LIs69BpZkqj2aoiXBZ9fvPiQnvCHYXsCgrXMp2ocdeCUiaFhgw01RBM9XApClPcHJXI y4Beqw605LUwsWTonlM8HnlIrhWvUw0VGWN8vQNji00ejInAYa+9MVnJ3dT6w4ddnNPA hlzCKOL+vsS3r9q5lECFzG/NdOW7HSosoNIYVQ2gNa2M4OhTyH2k+tM5hos/VuHsVeAi cfKA== X-Received: by 10.194.175.133 with SMTP id ca5mr6069961wjc.19.1380790713036; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mw9sm3438401wib.0.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:08:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1380697370.31512.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <524BC602.9030105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <524BC602.9030105@gmail.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4457137.guYGKzuK0x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201310030809.26172.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5edf618f-1480-42d6-a6fe-568beb68c99b X-Archives-Hash: 8fe48ba867707e00fdc613010445b09e --nextPart4457137.guYGKzuK0x Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 02 Oct 2013 08:06:42 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, > >> >=20 > >> > 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 ? > >> >=20 > >> > Trying to emerge ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 (currently the only legacy > >> > driver) > >> > with 3.12-rc3 gives > >> >=20 > >> > MODPOST 1 modules > >> >=20 > >> > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol > >> > 'acpi_bus_get_device' > >> >=20 > >> > Many thanks for a hint, > >> > Helmut > >>=20 > >> 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? > >=20 > > I'm quite sure there are a lot of things which you don't known either. > >=20 > >> Does that do no seem a bit silly? hm? > >=20 > > Thanks for this compliment! > >=20 > >> acpi_bus_get_device is gpl only. You can undo that. If you want. > >>=20 > >> 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. > >=20 > > There are two points here: > > - first I consider it as my contribution to GenToo to help testing. > >=20 > > The problem with the 3.12 prerelease will definitely continue with the > >=20 > > main release > >=20 > > coming in about 4 weeks. > >=20 > > - This 3.12 prerelease has a lot of BTRFS pataches. Since I'm using > > BTRFS for most of > >=20 > > my file systems, I like to have the most recent fixes. >=20 > Calm down boys. >=20 >=20 > Helmut, the problem is that you are trying to use ATI's proprietary 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 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. Curious, is there a reason you are not using the radeon driver instead of t= he=20 ati proprietary drivers? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4457137.guYGKzuK0x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJSTRglAAoJELAdA+zwE4Yed6oH+gNz5S0YJnvEzk3IV7dTuJh7 LbJgUsSR4SehTH5VJQDBEnPkBWKQJiy6MbJqFx5zVojcMjQ6nRAuwYXXVgTFT1n8 dWXDBwfQ1JdVVPqiepcwmlohcqwIrSYCy6WAd3wJ7Pedr2ePI4/cK+ifaFE7tMhv ANDGPRZTjS42arXzYQ5L9ZiDctKePF/4j86e5tkGsV974Mk9ykP9szap5aJY5hty wrZ0HUcUIbuI1AM8VjPs+UPN1kcgxhJI8DIZTJy1oY9HMgrdwlPHOoD28kg0kPul vSY+IcgCke4HwuOkX35OfjTsk0PEPFVPYb/hrMMP/VfAOpAorKXnXdn/jendqUQ= =gTvo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4457137.guYGKzuK0x--