Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] crc generation fix for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:42:36 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 21:24 -0800, Ram Pai wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:15 -0800, Ram Pai wrote: > > > Currently genksym does not take into account the GPLness of the exported > > > symbol while generating the crc for the exported symbol. Any symbol > > > changes from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would not reflect in the > > > Module.symvers file. This patch fixes that problem. > > > > and this is a problem.. why? > > Tools that depend on Module.symvers wont be able to detect the change in > GPLness of the exported symbols.
and that is relevant.. why?
> Eventually we want to generate a tool that can report API changes across > kernel releases and put it in some friendly(docbook) format.
but a _GPL change isn't an API change though... either a module is legal or it isn't. _GPL doesn't matter there...
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