Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932169AbWHVOId (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:08:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932262AbWHVOId (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:08:33 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:56585 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932169AbWHVOIc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:08:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:08:32 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , virtualization , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h Message-ID: <20060822140832.GW11651@stusta.de> References: <1155202505.18420.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DB7596.6010503@goop.org> <20060819012133.GH7813@stusta.de> <44E67B6E.10706@goop.org> <44EAFEE3.8080700@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44EAFEE3.8080700@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 37 On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:56:03AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>relicensing them. > >> > > > >That's a pretty strong statement... > > > > Well, I'm not making any kind of legal statement. I'm just pointing out > that from a technical perspective, there's a large visible functional > change from before if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) vs > EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops). Given that the whole point of paravirt_ops > is to minimize visible changes, this seems counterproductive. It only affects kernels with the new functionality PARAVIRT=y, not kernels with the same functionality as today. The alternative is to keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) and make the functions using it out of line functions. > J cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/