Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

Pavel Roskin
2008-03-04T23:29:28Z

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > To recap:
> >
> > 1) USB API
> > 2) Workqueue API (there is a hackish replacement in ndiswrapper)
> > 3) task_nice(), but I have a trivial workaround for that.
>
> task_nice() - it's trivial so feel free to send a patch that turns it
> into EXPORT_SYMBOL().

The recent discussion makes me nervous about sending any patches of such
kind. Instead of getting access task_nice(), ndiswrapper could lose
access to set_user_nice() or something else.

It's bad already that a mistaken commit has turned into a permanent
restriction for ndiswrapper after my intervention :-(

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin