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.
next prev 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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