From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 486798@bugs.debian.org, josejx@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:18:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080618181856.3474859d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080618101402.GF15718@soziologie.ch>
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:14:02 +0200
Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The kernel modules for Mac on Linux (MOL) need handle_mm_fault.
> MOL is a GPL licensed virtual machine to run MacOS(X) on PPC Linux.
>
> The export for handle_mm_fault was removed with commit
> 41f9dc5c871600f53c8912b2975971d2a11c1c25.
This sort of thing is going to happen if modules hide out of tree. If MOL
is GPL why isn't it getting submitted to the kernel tree - other
virtualisation subsystems such as KVM are in tree ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 10:14 [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux Gaudenz Steinlin
2008-06-18 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-18 12:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-06-18 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-19 9:59 ` Gaudenz Steinlin
2008-06-18 17:18 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-19 9:58 ` Gaudenz Steinlin
2008-06-19 10:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-19 10:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-19 11:01 ` Greg KH
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