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On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:15 -0800, Ram Pai wrote: > > Currently genksym does not take into account the GPLness of the exported > > symbol while generating the crc for the exported symbol. Any symbol > > changes from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would not reflect in the > > Module.symvers file. This patch fixes that problem. > > and this is a problem.. why? Tools that depend on Module.symvers wont be able to detect the change in GPLness of the exported symbols. Eventually we want to generate a tool that can report API changes across kernel releases and put it in some friendly(docbook) format. Suggestions? RP > > - 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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