From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:59:38 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:48564 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:59:29 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15135.25772.232947.584016@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:25:32 -0700 (PDT) To: hps@intermeta.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <9fnjh0$d1c$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <200106051659.LAA20094@em.cig.mot.com> <15134.49211.159673.522020@pizda.ninka.net> <9fnjh0$d1c$1@forge.intermeta.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Henning P. Schmiedehausen writes: > And this is legal according to the "Kernel GPL, Linus Torvalds edition > (TM)" which says "any loadable module can be binary only". Not "only > loadable modules which are drivers". It may not be the intention but > it is the fact. Where is this text you are quoting? And I didn't say it's ok "only for drivers", I said "only when using the module exported symbols found in Linus's kernel". Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com