From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750928AbWBLCe6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:34:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750952AbWBLCe5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:34:57 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:36279 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750928AbWBLCe5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:34:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43EE9EC0.2030403@rtr.ca> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:34:40 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() References: <20060208062007.GA7936@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060208062007.GA7936@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > > So, here's a patch that implements EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(). It > basically says that some time in the future, this symbol is going to > change and not be allowed to be called from non-GPL licensed kernel > modules. The wording and intent here are incorrect. All kernel modules are already *GPL licensed*, whether the authors think so or not. So this patch (if it goes through), should be reworded so as not to muddy those waters (as the above excerpt does). Cheers