Workqueues and the Nvidia driver
Regarding the problems with the nvidia driver on 2.5.44, the problem is, as Dave suggested, the GPL-only workqueues. I changed (for personal use) the relevant EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLs to EXPORT_SYMBOLs in workqueue.c. It works quite fine even though it is a bit unstable. Adding a MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") line to the nvidia driver would have been quicker but I don't somehow think that's allowed :)
Cheers,
Ashwin.
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Quoted 2 lines · Ashwin Sawant
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MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")line to the nvidia driver would have been quicker but I don't somehow think that's allowed :)
If you don't distribute the resulting binary and the modified source code, of course it is. It's unethical though. And ugly, too. :-)
Regards
Henning
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