linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:23:09 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	caglar@...dus.org.tr, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:04:39 EST, Steven Rostedt said:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 Valdis.Kletnieks@...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.

OK, I can live with that. ;)

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