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Message-Id: <200704301319.54291.ak@suse.de>
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
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