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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:49:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130506224945.GI800@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367876695-3697-1-git-send-email-marc.dionne@your-file-system.com>

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:44:55PM -0400, Marc Dionne wrote:
> Commit 8425e3d5bdbe ("workqueue: inline trivial wrappers") changed
> schedule_work() and schedule_delayed_work() to inline wrappers,
> but these rely on some symbols that are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, while
> the original functions were EXPORT_SYMBOL.  This has the effect of
> changing the licensing requirement for these functions and making
> them unavailable to non GPL modules.
> 
> Make them available again by removing the restriction on the
> required symbols.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@your-file-system.com>

Will apply to workqueue/for-3.10-fixes once v3.10-rc1 drops.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06 21:44 Marc Dionne
2013-05-06 22:49 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-05-14 18:53 ` Tejun Heo

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