From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:10:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203021049.GA17576@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B63AF4C.9040003@davidnewall.com>
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:32:20PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_device);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_device);
>>>
>>
>> No, sorry, [...] I can not, and will not, make this change.
>>
>
>
> Derek,
>
> Consider writing a GPL wrapper module.
Ah, the old "GPL condom" try. Sorry, but this has been tried many times
in the past, and have been shut down every time. See the Samba history
of this for lots of details as to why this does not work.
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 3:15 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
2010-01-30 4:02 ` David Newall
2010-02-03 2:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-02-03 15:28 ` David Newall
2010-02-04 0:30 ` Robert Hancock
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