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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:20:57 +0100
From: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] altix:  export sn_pcidev_info_get
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Arjan van de Ven schrieb:

>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:47 -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Export sn_pcidev_info_get.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Tony or Andrew please back this out again.  The only reason SGI wants this is
>>>to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it.
>>>
>>>And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.
>>>      
>>>
>>All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use
>>the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of
>>altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al).
>>
>>While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't
>>understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants
>>to use it.  What am I missing here?
>>    
>>
>
>so you would have no objection to making this a _GPL export ?
>
Hi Folks,

sn_* symbols are "their" symbols so I can't see any legitimation for 
anyone else to not let them export their symbols as they want. They are 
doing a great job on linux to make it run scalable on the biggest 
machines on earth. Or don't you like the idea of running Linux on those 
supercomputers?

Christian


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