Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:38:59 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: =?utf-8?B?QmrDuHJu?= Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers
 with EXPORT_SYMBOL
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> I just got a new wireless router and stumbled across an odd set of
> out-of-tree modules, where two GPL licensed modules were used by a third
> proprietary licensed one.
> 
> The nice router vendor sent me the GPL'd source code, and as expected
> the GPL modules are little more than wrappers working around the
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL restrictions.  Here's a complete example of one of
> them:

I'm wondering if we could fail building modules which do EXPORT_SYMBOL.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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