Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:04:39 -0500 (EST) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2 |
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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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