From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:25:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD970D.40209@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821091051.GA1683@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> uhm, why is this even a question? All of this stuff is so deep inside
> the guts of the kernel ... so nope - if then we want to change the
> others to _GPL exports as well, just to make sure nobody gets funny
> ideas.
pv_lock_ops gets accessed by inline functions which get inlined into
modules. They should never directly access it, but the generated code
will. _spin_lock() is in exactly the same situation.
J
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-20 18:31 [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-21 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21 10:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21 16:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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