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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE()
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:23:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139408629.26270.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060208062007.GA7936@kroah.com>

On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 22:20 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Currently we don't have a way to show people that some kernel symbols
> will be changed in the future from EXPORT_SYMBOL() to
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). 

For a good reason. When Linus first accepted the _GPL changes he did so
on the clear understanding that people wouldn't go around "privatising" 
existing symbols.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08  6:20 Greg KH
2006-02-08  7:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 17:36   ` Greg KH
2006-02-08 14:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-02-08 17:42   ` Greg KH
2006-02-08 18:38     ` Alan Cox
2006-02-12  2:34 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-12  4:15   ` Greg KH
2006-02-12  4:18     ` Mark Lord
2006-02-22  5:39       ` Greg KH
2006-02-12  4:41     ` Kyle Moffett

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