TL;DR: it does not affect NVIDIA driver users on the desktop. If you’re one of those, don’t worry, it doesn’t affect you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the change<\/a> actually does: It makes it impossible for a networking driver to integrate into the NVIDIA driver P2P interface (for RDMA) without having a complex install where the networking driver has to depend on the NVIDIA one. symbol_get() allowed for that integration to be done seamlessly<\/a>, regardless of if whether NVIDIA drivers were actually installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Making get_symbols() only work on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols is bogus in that case. And yes, a number of the networking drivers that I’m talking about are dual<\/em> GPL and<\/em> MIT licensed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that’s all about it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TL;DR: it does not affect NVIDIA driver users on the desktop. If you’re one of those, don’t worry, it doesn’t affect you. What the change actually does: It makes it impossible for a networking driver to integrate into the NVIDIA driver P2P interface (for RDMA) without having a complex install where the networking driver has… Read More »What this whole NVIDIA and the GPL drama is about this time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threedots.ovh\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}