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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:19:54 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, mingo@...e.hu, patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too On Monday 30 April 2007 13:15:36 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 30 2007 13:00, Andi Kleen wrote: > >On Monday 30 April 2007 12:50:09 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> > > >> > Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations > >> > like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive. > >> > > >> > Longer term should split the single structure up into > >> > internal and external symbols and not export the internal > >> > ones at all. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> > >> > >> Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree. > > > >The problem is that without this non GPL modules cannot even disable > >interrupts anymore. That is imho too radical. > > Perhaps we can have a paravirt_ops2 that specifically deals with > interrupt en/disable, and export that instead? Yes that is what the "Longer term ..." paragraph above refers to. However it would need some restructuring in the code. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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