Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:00:31 +0200 |
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On Monday 30 April 2007 12:50:09 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations > > like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. > > > > Longer term should split the single structure up into > > internal and external symbols and not export the internal > > ones at all. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > > Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree.
The problem is that without this non GPL modules cannot even disable interrupts anymore. That is imho too radical.
-Andi
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