Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:08:32 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h |
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:56:03AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>relicensing them. > >> > > > >That's a pretty strong statement... > > > > Well, I'm not making any kind of legal statement. I'm just pointing out > that from a technical perspective, there's a large visible functional > change from before if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) vs > EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops). Given that the whole point of paravirt_ops > is to minimize visible changes, this seems counterproductive.
It only affects kernels with the new functionality PARAVIRT=y, not kernels with the same functionality as today.
The alternative is to keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) and make the functions using it out of line functions.
> J
cu Adrian
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