Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934681AbYCDX32 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:29:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935266AbYCDXXv (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:23:51 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:29424 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935205AbYCDXXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:23:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols From: Pavel Roskin To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , Zan Lynx , linux-kernel , Jon Masters , Rusty Russell , Greg Kroah-Hartman In-Reply-To: <20080304212023.GD31546@elte.hu> References: <1204305609.21719.16.camel@dv> <1204313978.2316.8.camel@dv> <20080229211513.GI27212@elte.hu> <1204324265.2316.70.camel@dv> <20080303105752.GA23594@elte.hu> <20080304003723.z79pcavdk4wgoc44@webmail.spamcop.net> <20080304125744.GF29777@elte.hu> <1204652732.2312.18.camel@dv> <20080304212023.GD31546@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:23:48 -0500 Message-Id: <1204673028.3479.21.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 28 On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > To recap: > > > > 1) USB API > > 2) Workqueue API (there is a hackish replacement in ndiswrapper) > > 3) task_nice(), but I have a trivial workaround for that. > > task_nice() - it's trivial so feel free to send a patch that turns it > into EXPORT_SYMBOL(). The recent discussion makes me nervous about sending any patches of such kind. Instead of getting access task_nice(), ndiswrapper could lose access to set_user_nice() or something else. It's bad already that a mistaken commit has turned into a permanent restriction for ndiswrapper after my intervention :-( -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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/