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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers with EXPORT_SYMBOL
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:38:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130701213859.GC23539@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo6m2yok.fsf@nemi.mork.no>

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> I just got a new wireless router and stumbled across an odd set of
> out-of-tree modules, where two GPL licensed modules were used by a third
> proprietary licensed one.
> 
> The nice router vendor sent me the GPL'd source code, and as expected
> the GPL modules are little more than wrappers working around the
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL restrictions.  Here's a complete example of one of
> them:

I'm wondering if we could fail building modules which do EXPORT_SYMBOL.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-01 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01 13:32 Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers with EXPORT_SYMBOL Bjørn Mork
2013-07-01 21:38 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-07-02  7:57   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-07-02  8:17     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-02  8:47     ` Bjørn Mork

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