[arch-dev-public] Kernel 4.11 status

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 05/05/17 at 06:58am, Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-dev-public wrote:
> 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).

There is a patch for 4.12 to undo the change from GregKH. [1]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d557d1b58b3546bab2c5bc2d624c5709840e6b10.patch

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Jelle van der Waa
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