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Bug 559306 - net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248-r4: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module wl.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'flush_workqueue'
Summary: net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248-r4: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible m...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2015-09-01 06:09 UTC by zamabe
Modified: 2015-09-03 22:03 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248-r4 with gentoo-sources-4.2.0 build.log (build.log,3.73 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-01 06:11 UTC, zamabe 		Details
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Description zamabe 2015-09-01 06:09:23 UTC 
net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248-r4:
✓ does compile with gentoo-sources-4.1.6
✗ fails compile with gentoo-sources-4.2.0

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 zamabe 2015-09-01 06:11:37 UTC 
Created attachment 410732 [details]
net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248-r4 with gentoo-sources-4.2.0 build.log
Comment 2 Josh Holmer 2015-09-01 12:21:48 UTC 
Confirmed, I am having the same issue with this package on the 4.2 kernel line.
Comment 3 Takahiro HASHIMOTO 2015-09-02 03:51:52 UTC 
seems to be fixed in kernel 4.3. 

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1508.0/02260.html

The patch would be needed in gentoo-sources.
Comment 4 Markus Rathgeb 2015-09-02 06:31:57 UTC 
There is also some information:
https://github.com/longsleep/bcmwl-ubuntu/issues/6
Comment 5 Josh Holmer 2015-09-03 12:36:32 UTC 
This is fixed with gentoo-sources-4.2.0-r1