[arch-dev-public] Kernel 4.11 status

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Fri May 5 06:58:20 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:29 AM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public <
arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Problematic with 4.11, license needs to be patched I don't think this is
> legal.
> http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1935


We could patch the kernel to make the needed symbols non-GPL instead. That
at least sounds less problematic (IANAL).


> - vhba-module
>

Added a patch to trunk.


> Your opinion on pushing this to [testing].
>

Since I have an Optimus laptop, I'm interested in keeping the nvidia driver
functional...


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