Since commit 2aacdff entitled "cpufreq: Move common part from governors to separate file", whenever the drivers that
depend on this new file (cpufreq_ondemand or cpufreq_conservative) are built as modules, a new module named
cpufreq_governor is created. It seems that kmake is smart enough to create a separate module whenever more than one
module includes the same object file. As drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c contains no MODULE directives, the resulting
module has no license specified, which results in logging of a "module license 'unspecified' taints kernel". In
addition, a number of globals are exported GPL only, and are therefore not available.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
---
V2 is the more complicated version that makes clear what is happening.
Larry
---
Kconfig | 5 +++++
Makefile | 5 +++--
cpufreq_governor.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT)
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE) += cpufreq_performance.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE) += cpufreq_powersave.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE) += cpufreq_userspace.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND) += cpufreq_ondemand.o cpufreq_governor.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE) += cpufreq_conservative.o
cpufreq_governor.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND) += cpufreq_ondemand.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE) += cpufreq_conservative.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOVERNOR) += cpufreq_governor.o
# CPUfreq cross-arch helpers
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE) += freq_table.o
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ if CPU_FREQ
config CPU_FREQ_TABLE
tristate
+config CPU_FREQ_GOVERNOR
+ tristate
+
config CPU_FREQ_STAT
tristate "CPU frequency translation statistics"
select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
@@ -141,6 +144,7 @@ config CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE
config CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND
tristate "'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor"
select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
+ select CPU_FREQ_GOVERNOR
help
'ondemand' - This driver adds a dynamic cpufreq policy governor.
The governor does a periodic polling and
@@ -159,6 +163,7 @@ config CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND
config CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE
tristate "'conservative' cpufreq governor"
depends on CPU_FREQ
+ select CPU_FREQ_GOVERNOR
help
'conservative' - this driver is rather similar to the 'ondemand'
governor both in its source code and its purpose, the difference is
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
@@ -316,3 +316,8 @@ second_time:
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_governor_dbs);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Alexander Clouter <a...@digriz.org.uk>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("'cpufreq_governor' - A mini-module containing common code "
+ "for cpufreq_conservative and cpufreq_ondemand");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
