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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:40:01 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too
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> FWIW I think doing this first will be better, exposing _all_ to non GNU
> modules will weaken whatever case we might have to take it away later.

I have no problems taking it away later again. Or rather taking
away the symbols where non GPL code clearly has no business messing
with.

I don't think that applies to save_fl/restore_fl/irq_disable/irq_enable 
though. Undecided yet about the page table manipulation code (set_pte etc.)


-Andi