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SubjectRe: A "new driver model" and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL question
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
> > Was a decision to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL deliberate and if yes then
> > what considerations dictated it, other then the patch author wrote
> > it that way, and what drivers in question are supposed to use when
> > this change will show up in the mainline? It looks that 2.6.13
> > will do this.
>
> Please see the archives for the answers to these questions.

I actually tried that before posting. Maybe I attempted to look for
wrong things but, beyond conversion examples, I found some postings
with a general theme "there is no point to make life easy for
binary-only modules" and not much else. I am afraid that this
leaves me not much wiser.

Also, at least when dealing with 2.6.13-r1, neither
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, nor files in
Documentation/driver-model/ directory, mention anything about a
switch to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for relevant symbols. The only thing I
can find about the later in "feature-removal..." is a note about RCU
API.

Michal
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