Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:48:34 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 |
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kernel-rcupdatec-make-the-exports-export_symbol_gpl.patch add-deprecated_for_modules.patch add-deprecated_for_modules-fix.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement.patch deprecate-synchronize_kernel-gpl-replacement-fix.patch change-synchronize_kernel-to-_rcu-and-_sched.patch
Please drop these patches.
Using these symbols in non-GPL modules is a legal problem at least in the USA except for IBM, and all we've heard from IBM is that they are not 100% sure that there is really no binary-only module by IBM that might use these symbols.
The risk of anyne using them only increases (no matter that it's marked as deprecated) as long as it's available - and nobody has until now claimed that he's actually using one pf them in a binary-only module.
cu Adrian
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