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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...

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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