Bug 164579
| Summary: | OpenAFS and GPL-only exported kernel symbols | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Issue Tracker <tao> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ernie Petrides <petrides> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | lwang, peterm, petrides, staubach, tao, tburke |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-08-30 19:36:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Issue Tracker
2005-07-28 20:47:50 UTC
I've investigated and reproduced the bug in the enforcement of the GPL restriction on symbols exported from the main kernel. (The bug does not exist in symbols exported from kernel modules.) There will never be a RHEL3 kernel fix for this GPL restriction enforcement bug nor will the setting of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS be changed. The reasoning is that this would break compatibility with 3rd-party modules. Thus, OpenAFS is safe for the duration of RHEL3. Closing as WONTFIX, which in this case is desirable by the bug reporter. |