From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:23:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204673028.3479.21.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080304212023.GD31546@elte.hu>
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > To recap:
> >
> > 1) USB API
> > 2) Workqueue API (there is a hackish replacement in ndiswrapper)
> > 3) task_nice(), but I have a trivial workaround for that.
>
> task_nice() - it's trivial so feel free to send a patch that turns it
> into EXPORT_SYMBOL().
The recent discussion makes me nervous about sending any patches of such
kind. Instead of getting access task_nice(), ndiswrapper could lose
access to set_user_nice() or something else.
It's bad already that a mistaken commit has turned into a permanent
restriction for ndiswrapper after my intervention :-(
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 22:11 [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols Pavel Roskin
2008-02-28 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 6:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 16:54 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-29 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:59 ` Chris Friesen
2008-03-06 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2008-02-29 16:59 ` Zan Lynx
2008-02-29 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 17:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 19:39 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 20:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-29 21:13 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 20:17 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-29 20:40 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:08 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 22:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-01 8:15 ` David Newall
2008-02-29 20:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29 21:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 22:31 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-03 10:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 5:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 17:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-04 17:38 ` Greg KH
2008-03-04 17:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:23 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-03-04 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 23:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-05 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 17:18 ` Jon Masters
2008-02-29 21:55 ` Adrian Bunk
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