From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:50:51 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <416565DB.4050006@pobox.com> References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <416547B6.5080505@rtr.ca> <20041007150709.B12688@infradead.org> <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56467 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267410AbUJGPvK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:51:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > And the EXPORT_SYMBOLS() have not been vetoed to my knowledge. > They're required for addtional driver extensions that are being > provided later one, as GPL'd source code. Yes, they have been vetoed :) I explicitly used the word 'vetoed' in fact. You can add the hooks when you add code to the kernel that uses them. We don't add hooks on the _hope_ that _future_ code will (a) use the hooks and (b) be GPL'd. Jeff