From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crc generation fix for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:42:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139233357.3131.66.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139203471.4641.41.camel@localhost>
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 21:24 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:15 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> > > Currently genksym does not take into account the GPLness of the exported
> > > symbol while generating the crc for the exported symbol. Any symbol
> > > changes from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would not reflect in the
> > > Module.symvers file. This patch fixes that problem.
> >
> > and this is a problem.. why?
>
> Tools that depend on Module.symvers wont be able to detect the change in
> GPLness of the exported symbols.
and that is relevant.. why?
> Eventually we want to generate a tool that can report API changes across
> kernel releases and put it in some friendly(docbook) format.
but a _GPL change isn't an API change though... either a module is legal
or it isn't. _GPL doesn't matter there...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 4:15 Ram Pai
2006-02-04 20:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 5:24 ` Ram Pai
2006-02-06 13:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-02-06 14:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-07 6:49 ` Ram Pai
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