From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:08:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060822140832.GW11651@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EAFEE3.8080700@goop.org>
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:56:03AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>relicensing them.
> >>
> >
> >That's a pretty strong statement...
> >
>
> Well, I'm not making any kind of legal statement. I'm just pointing out
> that from a technical perspective, there's a large visible functional
> change from before if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) vs
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops). Given that the whole point of paravirt_ops
> is to minimize visible changes, this seems counterproductive.
It only affects kernels with the new functionality PARAVIRT=y, not
kernels with the same functionality as today.
The alternative is to keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) and make
the functions using it out of line functions.
> J
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 9:35 [PATCH] paravirt.h Rusty Russell
2006-08-10 10:10 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-10 10:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-10 11:05 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-10 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-10 13:03 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-10 15:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
[not found] ` <44DB54A5.50006@vmware.com>
[not found] ` <44DB6144.2080308@goop.org>
[not found] ` <1155262867.27719.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-08-11 2:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-10 18:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-19 1:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-19 2:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-20 8:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-22 12:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-22 14:08 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-08-22 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-22 13:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 17:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-22 19:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-22 19:17 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 19:26 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 19:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-22 19:43 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 20:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 22:02 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 1:55 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-23 2:12 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-23 8:44 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 8:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 9:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 9:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 9:14 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 9:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 9:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 9:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 9:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 10:03 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23 11:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 8:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-23 8:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 8:38 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-22 13:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-22 13:50 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 14:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-22 14:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 17:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-22 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-22 14:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-22 15:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-22 15:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-23 1:35 ` Rusty Russell
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060822140832.GW11651@stusta.de \
--to=bunk@stusta.de \
--cc=ak@muc.de \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=chrisw@sous-sol.org \
--cc=geert@linux-m68k.org \
--cc=jeremy@goop.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=virtualization@lists.osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).