netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7] CAN: Add PF

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:07:09 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Urs Thuermann <urs@...ogud.escape.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] CAN: Add PF_CAN core module

On 25 Sep 2007 23:00:15 +0200
Urs Thuermann <urs@...ogud.escape.de> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Then please make all exported symbols marked EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to
> > make sure that the other CAN protocol can not reuse your
> > infrastructure.
> 
> We don't want to force other CAN protocol implementations to be GPL
> also.  AFAIR from discussions on LKML, it was mostly agreed upon that
> this decision is up to the authors of code.
> 
> urs

I just don't want proprietary drivers extensions in linux kernel.
EXPORT_SYMBOL has no meaning in other OS environments.
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