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Message-Id: <1204673028.3479.21.camel@dv>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:23:48 -0500
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25] module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only
symbols
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Roskin <proski@....org> wrote:
>
> > To recap:
> >
> > 1) USB API
> > 2) Workqueue API (there is a hackish replacement in ndiswrapper)
> > 3) task_nice(), but I have a trivial workaround for that.
>
> task_nice() - it's trivial so feel free to send a patch that turns it
> into EXPORT_SYMBOL().
The recent discussion makes me nervous about sending any patches of such
kind. Instead of getting access task_nice(), ndiswrapper could lose
access to set_user_nice() or something else.
It's bad already that a mistaken commit has turned into a permanent
restriction for ndiswrapper after my intervention :-(
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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