Re: sorting of exports breaks modpost's GPL checking

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>>> On 05.07.11 at 11:36, Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Beulich,
> 
> 2011/7/4 Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Is it known (and being worked on) that exported symbols residing
>> themselves in modules are no longer properly handled by modpost,
>> due to the .o files to be linked into .ko (other than vmlinux and the
>> .ko files) still carrying the ___ksymtab*+<symbol> sections?
>>
>> If not - what are the thoughts to resolve this?
> [...]
> 
> Could you tell me how reproduce the problem?

Just look at Modules.symvers - all the symbols coming from modules
will be tagged "(unknown)" rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL,
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, etc.

As to reproducing the actual bad behavior - creating a non-GPL
module that consumes a GPL-only export should be all you need.

Jan

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