Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:36:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: [BK] Changing driver core/sysfs/kobject symbol exports to GPL only |
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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...
I didn't touch class_simple. Are there really external modules that use platform_device_register_simple(), or you speaking hypothetically?
IOW, this is a call to anyone that has external modules (that aren't GPL) to step up and claim usage and make arguments for their non-GPL exportability.
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