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

Pavel Roskin
2008-02-29T20:08:45Z

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:53 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > I already know what USB folks will say. They want proprietary drivers
> > to be in the userspace. I doubt ndiswrapper will ever be ported to the
> > userspace. It's much more likely that some other approach will be used.
>
> If that's the case, then talk to the USB people. Maybe they are ok with
> wrapping them in GPL wrappers. But it sounds like they would prefer the
> stricter GPLONLY meaning (ie no ndiswrapper), and it's their code.

This still leaves us with the workqueue interface:

__create_workqueue_key
destroy_workqueue
flush_workqueue
queue_work

ndiswrapper has its own workqueue implementation, but it would be great
to avoid code duplication.

As for task_nice(), it's strange that task_nice() is GPLONLY, but
set_user_nice() is not. Anyway, it can probably be worked around.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin