[PATCH] Add note that lockdep is not allowed with non-GPL modules

From: Petr Vandrovec
Date: Tue Jul 04 2006 - 16:27:26 EST


Hi Ingo,
can you add this small notice to the lockdep option ?

Lock dependency infrastructure forces all legacy code which uses lock to now
depend on lockdep_init_map symbol, which is GPL-only. It means that almost
no modules can work on kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP set. Let's warn user about
that.

vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
vmmon: Unknown symbol lockdep_init_map

Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec

Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


--- linux-2.6.17-3130.dist/lib/Kconfig.debug 2006-07-04 19:31:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-3130/lib/Kconfig.debug 2006-07-04 21:55:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@

For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.

+ Do not enable this option if you are using non-GPL modules, or
+ they will fail to load due to missing symbol lockdep_init_map.
+
config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
-
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