Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:15:36 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too |
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On Apr 30 2007 13:00, Andi Kleen wrote: >On Monday 30 April 2007 12:50:09 Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> > >> > Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations >> > like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. >> > >> > Longer term should split the single structure up into >> > internal and external symbols and not export the internal >> > ones at all. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> >> >> Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree. > >The problem is that without this non GPL modules cannot even disable >interrupts anymore. That is imho too radical.
Perhaps we can have a paravirt_ops2 that specifically deals with interrupt en/disable, and export that instead?
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