Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [BK] Changing driver core/sysfs/kobject symbol exports to GPL only | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:24:38 -0500 |
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On Friday 24 September 2004 10:42 pm, Patrick Mochel wrote: > What's life without a little controversey once in a while? > > The attached patch and referenced BK tree changes all the symbol exports > in the driver core, sysfs, and the kobject core to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL [1].
May I ask to keep class_simple and maybe platform_device_register_simple available to non-GPL modules. These functions offer limited and documented semantic and while it is impossible to build entire new subsystem around them it will allow non-GPL stuff still be somewhat integrated - standard hotplug mostly I think...
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