Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751477Ab0BCDP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:15:57 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:55765 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750944Ab0BCDPz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:15:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:10:49 -0800 From: Greg KH To: David Newall Cc: Derek Atkins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re-enabling non-GPL driver access to disk partition information Message-ID: <20100203021049.GA17576@kroah.com> References: <20100129220601.GA19687@kroah.com> <4B63AF4C.9040003@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B63AF4C.9040003@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 28 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:32:20PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> >>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_device); >>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_device); >>> >> >> No, sorry, [...] I can not, and will not, make this change. >> > > > Derek, > > Consider writing a GPL wrapper module. Ah, the old "GPL condom" try. Sorry, but this has been tried many times in the past, and have been shut down every time. See the Samba history of this for lots of details as to why this does not work. good luck, greg k-h -- 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/