Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:27:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > is wrong somewhere. Then perhaps we could even refine the API to have > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_FRIENDS(sym,list_of_friends) > > where only "friends" can use the symbol and even then only if they first > call (an exported function): > > register_export_payment(sym, sum); > > where 'sum' depends on the number of hours spent on writing sym().
I hope it is obvious it was a joke? Perhaps to make the joke intention clearer I should have suggested a better "symbol exporting protocol" from kindergarten experience:
module -> kernel: export your symbols, please kernel -> module: you export yours first and I'll export some of mine
which is not totally unlike the scheme suggested by bona fide EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL defenders, namely "if binary-only modules don't contribute to the base kernel why should the base kernel let them use it's symbols".
Regards, Tigran
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