Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols | From | Pavel Roskin <> | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:23:48 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote: > > > To recap: > > > > 1) USB API > > 2) Workqueue API (there is a hackish replacement in ndiswrapper) > > 3) task_nice(), but I have a trivial workaround for that. > > task_nice() - it's trivial so feel free to send a patch that turns it > into EXPORT_SYMBOL().
The recent discussion makes me nervous about sending any patches of such kind. Instead of getting access task_nice(), ndiswrapper could lose access to set_user_nice() or something else.
It's bad already that a mistaken commit has turned into a permanent restriction for ndiswrapper after my intervention :-(
-- Regards, Pavel Roskin
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