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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dcn@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:37:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040904093745.GB5313@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040904103529.C13149@infradead.org>

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On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:35:29AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:51:47AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:27, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > ChangeSet 1.1803.128.1, 2004/08/25 18:27:33+00:00, dcn@sgi.com
> > > 
> > > 	[IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> > > 	
> > > 	Add wrapper functions for SAL_CALL(), SAL_CALL_NOLOCK(), and
> > > 	SAL_CALL_REENTRANT() that allow OEM written modules to make
> > > 	calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> > > 	
> > 
> > are there any such modules? Are they GPL licensed or all proprietary ?
> 
> SGI has stated they have propritary modules that need this, that's why it's
> got added despite my objections.

if there are no open source modules that use these exports I would like to
ask these exports to be undone again..

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-04  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200409032207.i83M7CKj015068@hera.kernel.org>
2004-09-04  6:51 ` [IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-04  9:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04  9:37     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-09-04 22:29       ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-04 22:36         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-07 16:28           ` Robin Holt
2004-09-04 16:43     ` Alan Cox

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