Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:03 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2 |
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> 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? ;)
Yes. It would be something to discuss with the FSF.
However I don't think it matters. If you are doing instruction profiling you need *all* the code built with profiling to get good results. You can't rebuild the Nvidia modules so you can't profile them.
Alan
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