From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>, LKML <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: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:17:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702081754.GA4535@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvw5byx2gu47oD5yOMSHHxieh8qs0z5ZyeCRpAi7T3ibOA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:57:08AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> Then vendors will do a s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g on the kernel.
Huh, "fail building if a module does EXPORT_SYMBOL"...
> Recently I've identified such a case.
Regardless, there's not really a whole lot we can do technically as long
as they go and change the kernel. The EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL thing protects
only against separately distributed modules but if you deliver the whole
kernel, you can do whatever you want. :-\
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 8:17 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
2013-07-02 7:57 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-07-02 8:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-07-02 8:47 ` Bjørn Mork
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