From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Module licence and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:19:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030103051949.2D7FB2C052@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:28:31 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301022025200.1700-100000@home.transmeta.com>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301022025200.1700-100000@home.transmeta.com> you wri
te:
>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > Linus, your options:
> > 1) Drop the patch and leave well enough alone.
> > 2) Just keep the module licence taint check.
> > 3) Say OK to the whole thing (once I've tested it against latest bk).
>
> Hmm.. Can you make the "module_is_gpl()" thing a load-time check, and
> instead of carrying the license string along at run-time, you just carry
> the "I'm GPL-ok'd" bit along.
Just call it ".init.license" instead of ".license" and you're done:
it's never used at runtime (well, setting the mod->license field to
NULL after init to make sure noone abuses it might make sense).
I'll test it now...
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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2003-01-03 3:55 [PATCH] [RFC] Module licence and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL Rusty Russell
2003-01-03 4:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-03 5:19 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2003-01-03 6:30 Rusty Russell
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