Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267410AbUJGPva (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:51:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267409AbUJGPv3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:51:29 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56467 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267410AbUJGPvK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:51:10 -0400 Message-ID: <416565DB.4050006@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:50:51 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <416547B6.5080505@rtr.ca> <20041007150709.B12688@infradead.org> <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 20 Mark Lord wrote: > And the EXPORT_SYMBOLS() have not been vetoed to my knowledge. > They're required for addtional driver extensions that are being > provided later one, as GPL'd source code. Yes, they have been vetoed :) I explicitly used the word 'vetoed' in fact. You can add the hooks when you add code to the kernel that uses them. We don't add hooks on the _hope_ that _future_ code will (a) use the hooks and (b) be GPL'd. Jeff - 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/