Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755683Ab0A2Ore (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:47:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755231Ab0A2Orc (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:47:32 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:39984 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755378Ab0A2Ora (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:47:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:28 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Derek Atkins Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information Message-ID: <20100129144728.GS19799@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 15 On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > In particular, there is now no way for a proprietary driver to access > the gendisk partition array, to enumerate the existing partitions, or to > get information about existing partitions. All those interfaces are now > GPL-Only, (whereas access to the structure members before were perfectly > legal for non-GPL modules). But now the partition structure is sitting > behind the GPL-Only RCU abstraction. Why the hell does disk driver care about partitioning in the first place? -- 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/