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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2004 10:42 pm, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > What's life without a little controversey once in a while? > > > > The attached patch and referenced BK tree changes all the symbol exports > > in the driver core, sysfs, and the kobject core to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL [1]. > > May I ask to keep class_simple and maybe platform_device_register_simple > available to non-GPL modules. These functions offer limited and documented > semantic and while it is impossible to build entire new subsystem around > them it will allow non-GPL stuff still be somewhat integrated - standard > hotplug mostly I think... I didn't touch class_simple. Are there really external modules that use platform_device_register_simple(), or you speaking hypothetically? IOW, this is a call to anyone that has external modules (that aren't GPL) to step up and claim usage and make arguments for their non-GPL exportability. Pat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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