Building separate files for a kernel module

Martin Galvan omgalvan.86 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 13:19:47 EDT 2018


2018-04-05 12:02 GMT-03:00 Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:49:36AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
>> I want my module to be DKMS-enabled, but since the 'bar' binaries
>> don't use anything Linux-specific I don't want to distribute the
>> sources for it.
>
> Hahaha, good luck, please discuss this with a lawyer as to the
> legalities involved.  You are on your own here.

You're right, and I apologize if this practice is frowned upon. I just
assumed it wasn't since the kbuild docs mention ways for having binary
blobs included with kernel modules.

Thanks for the answer.



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