From: "Ioan Ionita" <opslynx@gmail.com>
To: "Chris Snook" <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>,
"kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reexport init_mm ?
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:26:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df47b87a0802290526h322b5cc6va9621e7329d1ac98@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C6617D.1030700@redhat.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:
> drago01 wrote:
> > init_mm is no longer exported in 2.6.25, because there are no in tree
> > modules that use it.
> > But the closed sources nvidia drivers are using it.
> > Is it possible to reexport this symbol to let the driver work with this kernel?
>
> The fact that there are no in-tree modules that use init_mm is rather
> compelling evidence that it's not a necessary part of the kernel module
> API. Nvidia needs to fix their code. If this is a burden, perhaps they
> should publish their code under a GPLv2-compatible license so we can
> show them how to do it.
Publish it and get it merged so you'd have no choice but to keep the
symbol exported in the first place?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 8:29 drago01
2008-02-27 9:10 ` Dave Airlie
2008-02-28 7:23 ` Chris Snook
2008-02-29 13:26 ` Ioan Ionita [this message]
2008-02-29 18:01 ` Chris Snook
2008-03-01 11:46 ` Ioan Ionita
2008-03-03 15:54 ` Eragon
2008-03-03 17:07 ` Adrian Bunk
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