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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too
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    On Monday 30 April 2007 13:15:36 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
    >
    > 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?

    Yes that is what the "Longer term ..." paragraph above refers to.
    However it would need some restructuring in the code.

    -Andi
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