Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: apic: Changing export symbols to *_GPL | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:29:59 -0400 | From | "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <> |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Robert Richter wrote:
> This fits better here.
[Snipped...] This question was raised before and simply dismissed.
If somebody wrote a procedure in the kernel that exported some symbols. And that person wanted anybody to use that symbol, upon what authority does one change "EXPORT_SYMBOL" to "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?" This will need to eventually be answered.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/ _
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