From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261382AbVGDQHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:07:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261165AbVGDQHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:07:37 -0400 Received: from mail.harddata.com ([216.123.194.198]:50576 "EHLO mail.harddata.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261382AbVGDQAc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:00:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:00:22 -0600 From: Michal Jaegermann To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A "new driver model" and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL question Message-ID: <20050704100022.A23509@mail.harddata.com> References: <20050703171202.A7210@mail.harddata.com> <20050704054441.GA19936@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050704054441.GA19936@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > Was a decision to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL deliberate and if yes then > > what considerations dictated it, other then the patch author wrote > > it that way, and what drivers in question are supposed to use when > > this change will show up in the mainline? It looks that 2.6.13 > > will do this. > > Please see the archives for the answers to these questions. I actually tried that before posting. Maybe I attempted to look for wrong things but, beyond conversion examples, I found some postings with a general theme "there is no point to make life easy for binary-only modules" and not much else. I am afraid that this leaves me not much wiser. Also, at least when dealing with 2.6.13-r1, neither Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, nor files in Documentation/driver-model/ directory, mention anything about a switch to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for relevant symbols. The only thing I can find about the later in "feature-removal..." is a note about RCU API. Michal