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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: dev_printk() is now GPL-only
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:57:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807025723.GK4379@parisc-linux.org> (raw)


Does dev_driver_string() really need to be GPL-only?  Up to this point,
proprietary modules have been entitled to call dev_printk(), but now:

#define dev_printk(level, dev, format, arg...)  \
        printk(level "%s %s: " format , dev_driver_string(dev) , (dev)->bus_id , ## arg)

with

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_driver_string);

means that they're not allowed to.

On a related note, one might wonder if

        return dev->driver ? dev->driver->name :
	                        (dev->bus ? dev->bus->name : "");

really qualifies for the full weight of copyright enforcement, and query
whether using it makes your driver a derived work.  Particularly since
all one is doing is asking the kernel for a nice printk prefix and know
nothing about the innards of the device model.


             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-07  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07  2:57 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-08-07  3:09 ` dev_printk() is now GPL-only Greg KH
2006-09-24  5:35   ` Matthew Wilcox

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