Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751645AbWLNRw5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:52:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751646AbWLNRw5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:52:57 -0500 Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.208]:20916 "HELO smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751645AbWLNRw4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:52:56 -0500 X-YMail-OSG: k4m7wh0VM1mjO.GfLsk9Z9lzVaolW.EMQES1qgnefkifWG9yoNFw7Q3anp78riZI5GTHP4gMxI8neRR2PSu8I11jVUSN6tBI9rFvJJAA3pOnvcbohMbrXwxJZIokMayMnOj.XViE7WiXKg-- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:52:53 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Christoph Hellwig , 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: <20061214175253.GB12498@tuatara.stupidest.org> References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> <20061214005532.GA12790@suse.de> <458171C1.3070400@garzik.org> <20061214170841.GA11196@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20061214173827.GC3452@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061214173827.GC3452@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 13 On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and disruptive (though we could support both during a transition and migrate them over time). - 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/