There's an ugly hack of a workaround in OpenAFS that looks like it will deal with the current CONFIG_PARAVIRT brokenness at the cost of some performance. I'll go that route with the next upload. Hopefully upstream will remove the (incorrect) GPL-only designation on this interface soon.
NVidia, being non-free, I don't care about as much. I'll let someone else will carry the torch for that. maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well than tell $company to fix their proprietary crap. First of all, using core kernel interfaces that had previously always been exported to modules (and that are pulled into modules by inline functions in the kernel even when not called directly) is not broken. There was a promise by the linux-kernel folks that interfaces that were previously generally available would not be changed to GPL-only, which this essentially breaks. Second, OpenAFS is not proprietary crap. It might be DFSG-free crap, but that's a different judgement. :) It is a file system released under an DFSG-free license whose code predates Linux by several years and is therefore clearly not a derivative work (and is occasionally used by Linus as an example of a module that should not be forced to be GPL). It is in Debian main. I realize that it's not your fault (and not even an intentional decision), but it's frustrating to have RC bugs introduced in one's package by changes to the kernel that are entirely unrelated and are not technically necessary (by which I mean the labelling as GPL-only because the interface is theoretically in flux, not the paravirt changes themselves which I agree are very cool). Even if there isn't anything we can do about it, please don't get indignant at me for being upset that a free software package that we rely on to be able to run Debian on production servers won't build against the current Debian kernel. OpenAFS doesn't even use any of the interfaces in question; they're pulled in by inlined functions defined elsewhere in the kernel. Out-of-tree kernel modules are not all proprietary crap. Some of them are not GPL for reasons that have nothing to do with vendors and supposed trade secrets; in this case, it was because OpenAFS is a huge body of code that acquired hundreds or thousands of independent submissions under the IBM Public License and at this point it's not feasible to relicense it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
