Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:42:52 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > > None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for > > pv_lock_ops to be. > > uhm, why is this even a question? All of this stuff is so deep inside > the guts of the kernel ... so nope - if then we want to change the > others to _GPL exports as well, just to make sure nobody gets funny > ideas.
i've nevertheless applied it to tip/x86/urgent - but it would be nice to clean all of this up and only export the minimally necessary (ex include file inline functions) APIs and none of the paravirt stuff.
Ingo
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