Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269227AbUIYEYn (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:24:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269230AbUIYEYn (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:24:43 -0400 Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.82]:43682 "HELO smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269227AbUIYEYm (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:24:42 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK] Changing driver core/sysfs/kobject symbol exports to GPL only Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:24:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Patrick Mochel , greg@kroah.com References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409242324.38923.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 19 On Friday 24 September 2004 10:42 pm, Patrick Mochel wrote: > What's life without a little controversey once in a while? > > The attached patch and referenced BK tree changes all the symbol exports > in the driver core, sysfs, and the kobject core to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL [1]. May I ask to keep class_simple and maybe platform_device_register_simple available to non-GPL modules. These functions offer limited and documented semantic and while it is impossible to build entire new subsystem around them it will allow non-GPL stuff still be somewhat integrated - standard hotplug mostly I think... -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/