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.
"Thank you"
Helmut
