Re: scsi_unregister_driver in 2.6.10

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:57:32PM -0700, Vivek Mahajan wrote:
> I was working on my SCSI module and tried to use
> scsi_unregister_driver(). But looks like it has been made GPL only. I
> get unresolved symbol : driver_unregister(), when I tried to load the
> module. I think it is #defined to driver_unregister() in
> include/scsi/scsi_driver.h. And driver_unregister is exported as GPL
> only.
> 
> At the same time, scsi_register_driver() works with non GPL code
> without any problem. As this call is exclusively defined in
> drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c.
> 
> I was just wondering wss it unintentional Or there was a purpose
> behind that to make scsi_register_driver( ) as non GPL and
> scsi_unregister_driver( ) as GPL only.

I think this was unintentional.  However, I'm not sure there's a
compelling reason to undo it -- scsi_register_driver is for registering
top-level drivers like st, sr, sd and osst.  What kind of driver is this
that you're writing?

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