From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ensure i_ino uniqueness in filesystems without permanent inode numbers (via idr)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 21:30:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202053013.GC26389@cynthia.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061201172136.GA11669@dantu.rdu.redhat.com>
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Here's an updated (but untested) patch based on your suggestions. I also went
> ahead and made the exported symbols GPL-only since that seems like it would be
> appropriate here. Any further thoughts on it?
I don't know that this is a good idea. I know this isn't likely to be
a popular statement, but I think that there should be at least some
minor justification to making a symbol GPL-only (it won't take much).
This seems like exactly the sort of thing that should be a generic
service available to all filesystem implementors whether it's GPL or
not. The usual justification for GPL-only is that it's something
random modules shouldn't be touching anyway, but it's something that
some part of the tree which could be a module needs.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-02 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 14:48 Jeff Layton
2006-12-01 16:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-01 17:21 ` Jeff Layton
2006-12-01 17:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-02 5:30 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
2006-12-03 2:56 ` Jeff Layton
2006-12-02 12:58 ` Brad Boyer
2006-12-03 11:52 ` Al Boldi
2006-12-03 12:49 ` Jeff Layton
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