From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262377AbVGFW3v (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:29:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262512AbVGFW25 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:28:57 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:47509 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262333AbVGFWS1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:18:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:18:18 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Mike Snitzer Cc: Kay Sievers , Robert Love , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer Message-ID: <20050706221818.GA6696@kroah.com> References: <1093989513.4815.45.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040831150645.4aa8fd27.akpm@osdl.org> <1093989924.4815.56.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040902083407.GC3191@kroah.com> <1094142321.2284.12.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20040904005433.GA18229@kroah.com> <1094353088.2591.19.camel@localhost> <20040905121814.GA1855@vrfy.org> <20040906020601.GA3199@vrfy.org> <170fa0d2050706150255ec7019@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <170fa0d2050706150255ec7019@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:02:35PM -0600, Mike Snitzer wrote: > So this is a blast from the past Yes it is, why are you trying to argue about GPL issues on lkml? > but I'd like to understand why kobject_uevent and kbject_uevent_atomic > are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL. Because only GPL code should be causing kevents. > During the evoloution from a separate kevents over netlink (rml, kay, > arjan) then folding it in to kobject with hotplug (kay, greg kh, etc) > it went from GPL to not, as listed below in one of kay's early > patches, back to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL as it stands today. I asked that it be put back. Is there a problem with this? Do you have non-GPL kernel code that wants to use this interface? thanks, greg k-h