Re: [PATCH 2/7] CAN: Add PF_CAN core module

Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-25T21:08:36Z

On 25 Sep 2007 23:00:15 +0200
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > Then please make all exported symbols marked EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to
> > make sure that the other CAN protocol can not reuse your
> > infrastructure.
>
> We don't want to force other CAN protocol implementations to be GPL
> also. AFAIR from discussions on LKML, it was mostly agreed upon that
> this decision is up to the authors of code.
>
> urs

I just don't want proprietary drivers extensions in linux kernel.
EXPORT_SYMBOL has no meaning in other OS environments.