From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764367AbYCEV5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:57:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762857AbYCEV4l (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:56:41 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:28684 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764126AbYCEV4j (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:56:39 -0500 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: [PATCH] sched: make task_nice available to non-GPL modules To: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:56:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20080305215637.7767.99635.stgit@dv.roinet.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The API is trivial, and so is the implementation. Linux priorities are exposed to the userspace, so nobody should claim that software aware of Linux priorities is a derived work of the kernel. The complementary function set_user_nice() is available to non-GPL modules. If the module can set the priority, it should be able to read it back. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin --- kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index dcd553c..6db6e0c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -4422,7 +4422,7 @@ int task_nice(const struct task_struct *p) { return TASK_NICE(p); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_nice); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(task_nice); /** * idle_cpu - is a given cpu idle currently?