Package: fglrx-kernel-src
Version: 8.45.4-1
Severity: wishlist
After a small amount of anguish, I found that fglrx can not be compiled
against a kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP enabled (e.g. as a result of
enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC or CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) because it
exports lock_acquire as a GPL-only symbol, which causes the fglrx build
to fail with "GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
'lock_acquire'".
It would be very helpful if this fact could be documented somewhere.
Or, even better, if the compilation could issue a warning that explained
the problem and abort compilation. Something along the lines of
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
# error fglrx can not be compiled for a kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP \
please disable any options depending on LOCKDEP and recompile
#endif
Thanks,
Kevin
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