Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261339AbVAHXEW (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261418AbVAHXEV (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:04:21 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:17158 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261290AbVAHXED (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:04:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alan Cox Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , 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: <1105215021.10519.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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> <1105215021.10519.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:03:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1105225426.4196.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 4.1 (++++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on canuck.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 23 On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 21:46 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 .. given this, I actually think it might be better to make it a _GPL export right away, anything else is setting people up in an entrapment kind of way. - 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/