On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:35:29AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:51:47AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:27, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > ChangeSet 1.1803.128.1, 2004/08/25 18:27:33+00:00, dcn@sgi.com
> > > 
> > > 	[IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> > > 	
> > > 	Add wrapper functions for SAL_CALL(), SAL_CALL_NOLOCK(), and
> > > 	SAL_CALL_REENTRANT() that allow OEM written modules to make
> > > 	calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> > > 	
> > 
> > are there any such modules? Are they GPL licensed or all proprietary ?
> 
> SGI has stated they have propritary modules that need this, that's why it's
> got added despite my objections.

if there are no open source modules that use these exports I would like to
ask these exports to be undone again..