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SubjectRE: [stable] [patch 00/69] -stable review
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> Envoyé : 22 mai 2007 23:37
> À : Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Fortier,Vincent
> [Montreal] wrote:
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> > > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de Chuck
> > > Ebbert Envoy? : 21 mai 2007 18:24
> > >
> > > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:31:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >> On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:16:12 -0700 Chris Wright
> > > >> <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.21.2 release.
> > > >> Gee a lot of these are fixing recently-added regressions :( ...
> > > >
> > > > If only it would fix all of them...
> > > >
> > > > Michal's list [1] currently contains 51 different regressions in
> > > > 2.6.21 compared to 2.6.20 (12 of them were already reported before
> > > > 2.6.21 was released).
> > >
> > > Yeah, 2.6.21 seems awfully buggy, and patches to fix many of the
> > > bugs haven't appeared.
> > >
> > > Another 2.6.20 update seems to be in order...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If there is a new stable 2.6.20 / 2.6.21, would it be
> possible that they both contain also this patch to keep the
> same behaviour between 2.6.20 -> 2.6.22 kernels regarding
> paravirt_ops GPL export?
> >
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=com
> > mit;h=21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
>
> Why? Is there an in-kernel use for that export?

I sincerely dont know... Although:
- * NOTE: CONFIG_PARAVIRT is experimental and the paravirt_ops
- * semantics are subject to change. Hence we only do this
- * internal-only export of this, until it gets sorted out and
- * all lowlevel CPU ops used by modules are separately exported.

Makes me think there was a "good enough" reason to export instead of export GPL and that it "could" be usefull to keep the same behaviour for that same experimental feature under 2.6.20 / 2.6.21. Although, the "until it gets sorted out" makes me think it might planned to get removed before the end of 2.6.22

Thnx.

- vin
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