Arjan van de Ven schrieb:
>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:47 -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
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>>On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
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>>>>Export sn_pcidev_info_get.
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>>>>
>>>Tony or Andrew please back this out again. The only reason SGI wants this is
>>>to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it.
>>>
>>>And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.
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>>All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use
>>the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of
>>altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al).
>>
>>While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't
>>understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants
>>to use it. What am I missing here?
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>so you would have no objection to making this a _GPL export ?
>
Hi Folks,
sn_* symbols are "their" symbols so I can't see any legitimation for
anyone else to not let them export their symbols as they want. They are
doing a great job on linux to make it run scalable on the biggest
machines on earth. Or don't you like the idea of running Linux on those
supercomputers?
Christian