From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
To: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH revised 3/4] powerpc: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for symbols required by fs_enet and cpm_uart
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:15:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474AAAB4.7000104@scram.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071125191833.1e76f335@kernel.crashing.org>
Hi Vitaly,
>> Maybe this is a stupid question, but why did you choose
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and not EXPORT_SYMBOL?
>>
> To prevent using those pointers from within non-GPL modules. kind of policy now...
In particular in this case, as these pointers are currently not exported, at all. They
are currently used by a few drivers and will disappear again once these drivers have
been converted to use the propper accessors, which will also prevent access conflicts
to the CPM registers.
Thanks,
Jochen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 17:35 [PATCH revised 3/4] powerpc: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for symbols required by fs_enet and cpm_uart Jochen Friedrich
2007-11-25 15:38 ` Timur Tabi
2007-11-25 15:58 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-25 16:18 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-11-25 21:02 ` Dan Malek
2007-11-26 10:28 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-11-26 11:15 ` Jochen Friedrich [this message]
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