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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too
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On Monday 30 April 2007 16:55:48 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:50:09 +0100
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> 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.
>
> Ditto - do the work first then merge it.

Ok. Jeremy has come up with a ingenious simple solution. He promised
a patch.

-Andi
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