Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:03 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2
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> Playing devil's advocate here - the claim is that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is to
> indicate that code is getting too chummy with Linux internals.
> 
> However, in *this* case, isn't it "code that is too chummy with *GCC* internals",
> and thus it isn't our place to say what can and can't be done with code that
> is derivative of the GCC compiler? ;)

Yes. It would be something to discuss with the FSF.

However I don't think it matters. If you are doing instruction profiling
you need *all* the code built with profiling to get good results. You
can't rebuild the Nvidia modules so you can't profile them. 

Alan
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