Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752410AbWLQK51 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:57:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752411AbWLQK51 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:57:27 -0500 Received: from vervifontaine.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:38260 "EHLO vervifontaine.sonycom.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408AbWLQK50 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:57:26 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:57:24 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Chris Wedgwood , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] In-Reply-To: <20061214173827.GC3452@infradead.org> Message-ID: 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 36 On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. I find all those names confusing. If these special symbols are GPL/INTERNAL/WHATEVER, what are the other exported symbols? GPL -> Non-GPL? INTERNAL -> External? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/