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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] x86: export 'pcibios_enabled' as GPL
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:37:21 +0800
Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 06:03:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> >
> > Export 'pcibios_enabled' so that when uvesafb is built as a
> > loadable module (on X86_32), the build will succeed.
> >
> > ERROR: "pcibios_enabled" [drivers/video/uvesafb.ko] undefined!
> >
> > Patch v2 uses EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() as requested.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> > Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
> > Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: x86@kernel.org
> > ---
> > arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > --- linux-next-20120313.orig/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c
> > +++ linux-next-20120313/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c
> > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> > #define PCIBIOS_HW_TYPE2_SPEC 0x20
> >
> > int pcibios_enabled;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pcibios_enabled);
> >
> > /* According to the BIOS specification at:
> > * http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/specs/bios21.pdf, we could
> Acked-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

NAKked again by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

The fb code shouldn't be playing guessing games with thsi variable.
I've pointed out both how to check if NX is enabled and how to set pages
NX/non-NX.

Even if you wanted to check the pci bios state we should export a helper
method.

So NAK.

Alan


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