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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:37:37 +0200, =?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur said:
> > And because of mcount-add-basic-support-for-gcc-profiler-instrum.patch, closed
> > source nvidia-new module cannot be used with this release (mcount is exported
> > GPL only), i know this is not supported but i used it with that [2] patch up
> > until now without a single problem.
>
> Playing devil's advocate here - the claim is that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is to
> indicate that code is getting too chummy with Linux internals.
>
> However, in *this* case, isn't it "code that is too chummy with *GCC* internals",
> and thus it isn't our place to say what can and can't be done with code that
> is derivative of the GCC compiler? ;)

Actually, it got put in there by accident. I usually default all my
exports as GPL. But this breaks pretty much everything, so I'll leave it
as EXPORT_SYMBOL.

-- Steve



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