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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL

* 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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