Re: [Xenomai] __ipipe_root_status exported GPL only but used to be not GPL only and is breaking other code

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On 12/10/2014 08:19 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 08:13:50PM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> This is true in user space. Not for kernel modules, see:
>> https://git.xenomai.org/ipipe.git/tree/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt?h=ipipe-3.14
> 
> I can't even figure out how to track down which call is making it
> reference that symbol (for which it has zero interest of course).
> 
> I suppose if whoever made the change in ipipe (which unfortunately the
> ipipe git tree does not make easy to track down since it isn't like it
> is one git tree moving from version to version) does not see the point
> in reverting the change, then I will just have to keep a patch around to
> do it instead and ignore the advisory on the symbol to get this to work.
> I really don't want to do that, but stupid changes sometimes need stupid
> fixes.
> 
> This code does NOT use any xenomai or ipipe features.  Other code does.
> ipipe should not be breaking it.
> 

The stupid guy is me, as the main copyright holder on most of the code
you have been using with Xenomai so far. So where do we go from here?

-- 
Philippe.