Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751053AbWLNRjn (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:39:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932889AbWLNRjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:39:42 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:50795 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932888AbWLNRjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:39:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:38:27 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Message-ID: <20061214173827.GC3452@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wedgwood , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> <20061214005532.GA12790@suse.de> <458171C1.3070400@garzik.org> <20061214170841.GA11196@tuatara.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061214170841.GA11196@tuatara.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.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: 837 Lines: 18 On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:08:41AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:03:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I actually think the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thing is a good thing, if > > done properly (and I think we use it fairly well). > > > > I think we _can_ do things where we give clear hints to people that > > "we think this is such an internal Linux thing that you simply > > cannot use this without being considered a derived work". > > Then why not change the name to something more along those lines? Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. - 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/