linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtdsuper: licensce = GPL

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 03:23:46 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Rafał Bilski <rafalbilski@...eria.pl>
cc:	trivial@...nel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtdsuper: licensce = GPL

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Rafał Bilski wrote:

> block2mtd: version $Revision: 1.30 $
> block2mtd: mtd0: [d: /dev/sdc2] erase_size = 64KiB [65536]
> mtdsuper: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> mtdsuper: Unknown symbol get_mtd_device
> mtdsuper: Unknown symbol put_mtd_device
> jffs2: Unknown symbol get_sb_mtd
> jffs2: Unknown symbol kill_mtd_super

That's weird. I'm wondering how did you manage to build mtdsuper as a
separate module in the first place? It always gets linked with mtdcore
(which has all the necessary module decoration stuff) into the "mtd"
module itself, at least that;s what the Makefile says ...