Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2006 21:30:13 -0800 | From | Brad Boyer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via idr) |
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > Here's an updated (but untested) patch based on your suggestions. I also went > ahead and made the exported symbols GPL-only since that seems like it would be > appropriate here. Any further thoughts on it?
I don't know that this is a good idea. I know this isn't likely to be a popular statement, but I think that there should be at least some minor justification to making a symbol GPL-only (it won't take much). This seems like exactly the sort of thing that should be a generic service available to all filesystem implementors whether it's GPL or not. The usual justification for GPL-only is that it's something random modules shouldn't be touching anyway, but it's something that some part of the tree which could be a module needs.
Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com
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