From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:06:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129220601.GA19687@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sjmd40t3slu.fsf@pgpdev.ihtfp.org>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Approved By: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
What does that mean?
> --- drivers/base/core.c~ 2009-03-23 19:12:14.000000000 -0400
> +++ drivers/base/core.c 2009-10-16 12:15:57.000000000 -0400
Wrong diff level.
> @@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_del);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_unregister);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_device);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_device);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_device);
No, sorry, I've already successfully taken legal action against
companies who have tried to go around the driver core's GPL-only
symbols, so I can not, and will not, make this change.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 14:15 Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information Derek Atkins
2010-01-29 14:47 ` Al Viro
2010-01-29 15:09 ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-29 15:38 ` Derek Atkins
2010-01-29 15:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-29 22:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-01-30 4:02 ` David Newall
2010-02-03 2:10 ` Greg KH
2010-02-03 15:28 ` David Newall
2010-02-04 0:30 ` Robert Hancock
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