From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753358Ab2CCMxI (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:53:08 -0500 Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:2561 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319Ab2CCMxG (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:53:06 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: B55A25B1-5D7D-41F8-BC53-C57E7AD3C201 Message-ID: <4F52141C.2050808@broadcom.com> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:52:44 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: makes all compat symbols EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() References: <1330729706-11113-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@frijolero.org> In-Reply-To: <1330729706-11113-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@frijolero.org> X-WSS-ID: 634CC9B361S667892-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/03/2012 12:08 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > The Linux kernel is being backported here and a lot of code > is completely derivative works of the the Linux kernel, as such > only GPL-Compatible modules are intended to be used with this > framework, given that users of this framework are considered > completely derivative works of the Linux kernel. > > Only upstream Linux kernel modules or kernel modules on their > way upstream are intended to be used by this. > Tested with ckmake: Hi Luis, Some of the modules in this patch are dual-licensed. I was under the impression that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was specifically for GPL-only code although I could not find any specifics in the Documentation folder. Do you (or someone else) have a reference on this topic? Gr. AvS