Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261223AbVAHWvd (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:51:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261233AbVAHWvd (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:51:33 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:23493 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261223AbVAHWvZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:51:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation From: Alan Cox To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , arjan@infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, Linus Torvalds , dipankar@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20050108183220.GA2033@us.ibm.com> References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050106235633.GA10110@kroah.com> <20050108183220.GA2033@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105215021.10519.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:46:34 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 17 On Sad, 2005-01-08 at 18:32, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > What: call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), and synchronize_kernel() change from > EXPORT_SYMBOL() to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). > When: January 9, 2006 > Files: kernel/rcupdate.c > Why: There are no known environments supporting RCU from which > one could reasonably expect to port a non-GPL kernel module > or driver to Linux. IBM might want to also note that anyone wanting to do so needs an IBM patent license for non GPL use .. - 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/