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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:08:32 +0200
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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=3Dy, 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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