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 080171381F3 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E163E0BC1; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68BE4E0A70 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id u56so419086wes.35 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:11:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+1feXX1Quj4O++lI4F19elKwMxtSy8v8ySKcPCVm5jY=; b=aE6pwEBhrkxxD0Ja9ZC8W1rSTME6ZDP4a3wHwas3o6NKEQfUCyB2hiJAQWFgaD9GrK jR/gj9SJJrt1BKz9M3UQM2AMC/9VXZ8AG5UJM3ehOqRc5BO3Hz1UfRjtV7/pIiLlisFt 35M0zM40pjI5SSXeI1PiTpfAV/me3ZAiyziK2SdCOpopDmgW/k3ecJpLrmoNFJ1g/xsn BEoMsoulWgFUiPxwDGCGj76IeWuF3M/uOArJeKyRFPAfWH5EV2Qx4f3TGEPM//+P9z+p pRfcOrcLZU4Oc4Tiqzi+jRic74T4OKlZJYHZuIZyma9pKRX4Z7KtXeJKUzveswBT37YC m3pw== X-Received: by 10.180.100.202 with SMTP id fa10mr21744681wib.8.1380697876009; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.209] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d11sm13496065wic.4.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524BC602.9030105@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:06:42 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12 References: <1380697370.31512.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <1380697370.31512.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c9f5de46-1348-4b44-a0d6-84f30ba47c4a X-Archives-Hash: 83a52488ce2c988217733bacab257e8e 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 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. Calm down boys. Helmut, the problem is that you are trying to use ATI's proprietary code with GPL code in the kernel. The kernel devs do not want you to do that and that is their right. 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. 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com