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SubjectRe: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
} This can be made clean if all the inlined C in the headers are pushed
} back to an actual .c file and the make it function to call as an extern.
} So the solution is to make a patch and publish that patch which cleans the
} out the C code in question and move the associacted GPL license to the new
} .c files. This is proper and legal as structs are just the glue or api.
}
} So if I publish this patch where it can be freely available for usage by
} all, I comply with GPL. This also removes any of the "extremists" points
} of the smallest amount of GPL code invoked by the compiler can not touch
} pure code.
}
} Any arguments why this will not work?

Maybe something else would be better. Adding -fno-inline to the build
might be more useful. It makes things a bit cleaner.

It's a nasty mess to have to do this for every subsystem when someone gets
a wild-hair and starts inline-ing things without thinking.
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