From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
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Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 16:17:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8334f7f9-065f-40b9-9c1e-95223da7980d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250808-export_modules-v4-1-426945bcc5e1@suse.cz>
On 08.08.25 15:28, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Christoph suggested that the explicit _GPL_ can be dropped from the
> module namespace export macro, as it's intended for in-tree modules
> only. It would be possible to restrict it technically, but it was
> pointed out [2] that some cases of using an out-of-tree build of an
> in-tree module with the same name are legitimate.
I'm wondering if we could revisit that idea later, and have a config
option that enables that. The use cases so far were mostly around
testing IIRC, where people already run their own debug kernel or sth.
like that.
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-08 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-08 13:28 [PATCH v4] module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES Vlastimil Babka
2025-08-08 14:17 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-08-19 20:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-08-11 14:18 ` Christian Brauner
2025-08-12 7:54 ` Daniel Gomez
2025-08-15 14:25 ` Christian Brauner
2025-08-15 15:39 ` Daniel Gomez
2025-08-19 9:44 ` Christian Brauner
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