{"id":1532,"date":"2015-08-11T19:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:51:53","slug":"kernel-4-2-rc6-still-breaks-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 4.2-rc6 Still Breaks NVIDIA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to <strong>Kernel 4.2-rc6<\/strong>, and the NVIDIA &#8216;GPL-Only&#8217; problem still persists:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">\u00a0Building modules, stage 2. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"> \u00a0MODPOST 2 modules <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'flush_workqueue' <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">\/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:90: recipe for target '__modpost' failed <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">\/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6\/Makefile:1389: recipe for target 'modules' failed <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6' <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6' <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Makefile:81: recipe for target 'modules' failed <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make: *** [modules] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<\/pre>\n<div>There is a &#8216;hack&#8217; to get VMware 11.1.2 working (see earlier article: <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1528\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1528<\/a> ), but &#8211; apart from an &#8216;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">illegal<\/span>&#8216; change of the licence in the source code &#8211; there is still no fix..<\/div>\n<div>From previous articles in the NVIDIA\/GEForce Forum, it would appear that Kernel devs were already aware of the issue some time ago ( <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/849487\/linux-v4-2-uses-gpl-only-symbol-flush_workqueue-\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/forums.geforce.com\/default\/topic\/849487\/linux-v4-2-uses-gpl-only-symbol-flush_workqueue-\/\u00a0 <\/a>), so hopefully this will be fixed in another -rc..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Looking at the current status of changes to 4.2, I would expect at least another 2 release candidates before 4.2 Final..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 April 11, 2015.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to Kernel 4.2-rc6, and the NVIDIA &#8216;GPL-Only&#8217; problem still persists: \u00a0Building modules, stage 2. \u00a0MODPOST 2 modules FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol &#8216;flush_workqueue&#8217; \/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:90: recipe for target &#8216;__modpost&#8217; failed make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 \/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6\/Makefile:1389: recipe for target &#8216;modules&#8217; failed make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory &#8216;\/usr\/src\/linux-4.2-rc6&#8217; Makefile:146: <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1532\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,11,14,15,18,19],"tags":[1087,1167,1169,1168],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-gpl-only","tag-kernel-4-2-rc6","tag-module-fail","tag-nvidia-355-06"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}