linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

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Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:08:33 -0500
From:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only
	symbols


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:53 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > I already know what USB folks will say.  They want proprietary drivers
> > to be in the userspace.  I doubt ndiswrapper will ever be ported to the
> > userspace.  It's much more likely that some other approach will be used.
> 
> If that's the case, then talk to the USB people. Maybe they are ok with 
> wrapping them in GPL wrappers. But it sounds like they would prefer the 
> stricter GPLONLY meaning (ie no ndiswrapper), and it's their code.

This still leaves us with the workqueue interface:

__create_workqueue_key
destroy_workqueue
flush_workqueue
queue_work

ndiswrapper has its own workqueue implementation, but it would be great
to avoid code duplication.

As for task_nice(), it's strange that task_nice() is GPLONLY, but
set_user_nice() is not.  Anyway, it can probably be worked around.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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