Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:57:33 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch 01/03] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() |
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:16:45PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:49:26PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:49:22AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > This patch adds the ability to mark symbols that will be changed in the > > > future, so that non-GPL usage of them is flagged by the kernel and > > > printed out to the system log. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > The patch duplicate too much code to my taste at least. > > May I suggest to consolidate a little in module.c before applying the > > GPL_FUTURE stuff. > > > > Have you considered: EXPORT_GPL_SOON()?
Well, as I'm proposing that the USB symbols be converted in 2 years, that's not exactly "SOON" :)
> Better version below...
Very nice, I've added this to my tree. I had originally tried to do something like this, but your version is very nice compared to my bad hack.
thanks,
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