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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export spi_populate_* functions
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:49:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227144906.GC27759@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141050699.2992.113.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:31:38PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 07:18 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > These functions should be usable by modules.
> 
> since this is new and very much linux specific code, shouldn't these be
> _GPL exports?

how is it very much linux specific?  these  functions take a char
pointer and fill in that buffer with the messages defined in the scsi
specs.  there's no linux data structures used.

http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;h=c0051a432a97d1f9181229aff0fc9484df10c342;hp=97f4be62f748af9791d1a1932244ea604a1432e7;hb=49db0bbd2a3648b1da8dee31f803fc52a06c57e1;f=drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-27 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27 14:18 [PATCH] Export spi_populate_* functions Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-27 14:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:47   ` James Bottomley
2006-02-27 14:51     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-27 14:49   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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