Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 04:33:05 -0500 (EST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... |
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Removing the .._GPL() is in this case correct, but not for any of the > reasons mentioned, but simply because even Ingo agreed that it shouldn't > be _GPL since it's explicitly meant for drivers that shouldn't have any > knowledge whatsoever about the VM internals. GPL or not.
indeed. I had and still have no strong feelings either way, a patch to remedy this was promised by me but not sent. I made it _GPL for pure technical reasons: i saw no non-GPL drivers in 2.5 that used it, and at first sight the functionality looked internal enough to warrant the _GPL export. But in any case, while i might have written some of the patches, the principal author of the final interface is Linus. Hopefully this is the end of this story.
Ingo
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