> The fact that a piece of kernel functionality happens to be inlined
> is a pure technical detail of linkage.
Absolutely.
> If there really is inlined functionality which we do not wish made
> available to non-GPL modules then it should be either uninlined and
> not exported or it should be wrapped in #ifdef GPL.
I don't even think there should be any such case,
as the real point in having LGPL is, supposedly, to
support *interfacing*, so using headers (source-code
*interfaces*) and linking to stuff (binding binary
*interfaces*) should be just fine under LGPL (or a
better LGPL? IGPL? dunno the details that deep, sorry).
Sab