From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758362Ab1CCPbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:31:48 -0500 Received: from flanders.hackvalue.nl ([82.94.238.226]:50044 "EHLO flanders.hackvalue.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758036Ab1CCPbq (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:31:46 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2142 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:31:46 EST Subject: changing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to EXPORT_SYMBOL in DD-WRT From: Armijn Hemel To: s.gottschall@newmedia-net.de Cc: laforge@gpl-violations.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:55:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1299164159.10725.19.camel@hibbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello Sebastian, I noticed that a few hours ago you changed a few lines in the kernel source of DD-WRT, changing the export from a few symbols from 'GPL only' to something a lot more permissive: http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/changeset/16368 As you are probably aware the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro is there to clearly signal that it was the author's intent to make these symbols only available to GPL licensed kernel modules. What you have effectively done is ignore the author's intent. It also might end up in DD-WRT derivatives. I am sure that this is not what you meant to do. The commit message indicates that you are working around a certain problem you are facing with DD-WRT. I am sure that the Linux kernel developers would love to hear about that problem. For your convenience I have put them in CC. warm regards, armijn -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- armijn@gpl-violations.org || http://www.gpl-violations.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------