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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

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  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

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