From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:42:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080821104252.GA26516@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821091051.GA1683@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
> > None of the spinlock API is exported GPL, so there's no reason for
> > pv_lock_ops to be.
>
> uhm, why is this even a question? All of this stuff is so deep inside
> the guts of the kernel ... so nope - if then we want to change the
> others to _GPL exports as well, just to make sure nobody gets funny
> ideas.
i've nevertheless applied it to tip/x86/urgent - but it would be nice to
clean all of this up and only export the minimally necessary (ex include
file inline functions) APIs and none of the paravirt stuff.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-20 18:31 [PATCH] x86: export pv_lock_ops non-GPL Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-21 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21 10:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-21 16:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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