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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules... 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 2002 22:25:52 +0100."
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:25:52 +0100 (BST), 
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Ok, so that would cover the 2.5.x (and future stable) kernels. Does
>> Marcelo also agree that it should be the case in the 2.4.x kernel?
>
>Thats a Keith Owens question - will it break current modutils ? I think
>modutils compatibility for 2.4 must be sacrosanct

Trivial change to modutils, keeping backwards compatibility, so
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL == EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL.

When the flamers and lawyers agree on what they really mean by
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or its replacement and everybody agrees on what the
keyword should be, let me know and I will roll a new modutils.
Otherwise, leave me out of this flamewar.

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