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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:18:45 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168100325.20372.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070106071424.GB11232@elte.hu>

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 08:14 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(clts);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cr0);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cr0);
> 
> mark these a _GPL export. Perhaps even mark the symbol deprecated, to be 
> unexported once we fix raid6.

OK...

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(wbinvd);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(raw_safe_halt);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(halt);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apic_write);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apic_read);
> 
> these should be _GPL too. If any module uses it and breaks a user's box 
> we need that big licensing hint to be able to debug them ...

OK.  I GPLed the ones which I thought were really obscure, but I was
trying to follow existing policy of not _GPL'ing existing symbols.

Cheers,
Rusty.

PS.  drm_memory.h has a "drm_follow_page": this forces us to uninline
various page tables ops.  Can this use follow_page() somehow, or do we
need an "__follow_page" export for this case?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-06 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-06  0:07 [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops Ingo Molnar
2007-01-06  0:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06  6:25   ` Rusty Russell
2007-01-06  7:08     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-06  7:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-06 17:42       ` Rusty Russell
2007-01-06 18:32         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-06 20:55         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-07  1:09           ` Rusty Russell
2007-01-07 14:07             ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06  7:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-06  9:50       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06 10:52         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-06 16:18       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-01-06 19:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07  5:35           ` Rusty Russell
2007-01-07 18:39           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-07 18:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-08  0:54             ` Dave Airlie
2007-01-06  1:02 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06  2:07   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-06  4:41     ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06  5:34     ` Rusty Russell

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