История изменений

Совсем другое - специально вставлять палки в колёса и делать прозрачные намёки на судебные разбирательства. Второе выглядит совсем тухло. Пусть Нвидии поугрожают, раз такие смелые.

Они ей и угрожают:

What symbol_get() can be used for, though, is obtaining addresses from a proprietary module without going through the normal import mechanism (and its restrictions). It can, in other words, be used to circumvent the 2020 fix, making it once again possible for a nominally GPL-licensed module to call into a proprietary module and give that module access to the kernel functionality it needs. Hellwig has asserted that NVIDIA, a company long known for its proprietary kernel modules, has duly modified its code to make use of this workaround.

In response, he posted this patch set (since revised) to close the hole once again. It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway. As it happens, a handful of the uses in the kernel were for symbols that were not so marked, so the patch set includes changes to make the symbols referenced in those cases GPL-only.

ZFS сломался по остаточному принципу.

Совсем другое - специально вставлять палки в колёса и делать прозрачные намёки на судебные разбирательства. Второе выглядит совсем тухло. Пусть Нвидии поугрожают, раз такие смелые.

Они ей и угрожают:

What symbol_get() can be used for, though, is obtaining addresses from a proprietary module without going through the normal import mechanism (and its restrictions). It can, in other words, be used to circumvent the 2020 fix, making it once again possible for a nominally GPL-licensed module to call into a proprietary module and give that module access to the kernel functionality it needs. Hellwig has asserted that NVIDIA, a company long known for its proprietary kernel modules, has duly modified its code to make use of this workaround.

In response, he posted this patch set (since revised) to close the hole once again. It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway. As it happens, a handful of the uses in the kernel were for symbols that were not so marked, so the patch set includes changes to make the symbols referenced in those cases GPL-only.

ZFS там сломался по остаточному принципу.

Совсем другое - специально вставлять палки в колёса и делать прозрачные намёки на судебные разбирательства.

Они ей и угрожают:

What symbol_get() can be used for, though, is obtaining addresses from a proprietary module without going through the normal import mechanism (and its restrictions). It can, in other words, be used to circumvent the 2020 fix, making it once again possible for a nominally GPL-licensed module to call into a proprietary module and give that module access to the kernel functionality it needs. Hellwig has asserted that NVIDIA, a company long known for its proprietary kernel modules, has duly modified its code to make use of this workaround.

In response, he posted this patch set (since revised) to close the hole once again. It changes the behavior of symbol_get(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbol_get() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway. As it happens, a handful of the uses in the kernel were for symbols that were not so marked, so the patch set includes changes to make the symbols referenced in those cases GPL-only.

ZFS там сломался по остаточному принципу.