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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0807231525490.30326@chaos.analogic.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:29:59 -0400
From:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"Robert Richter" <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: apic: Changing export symbols to *_GPL

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Robert Richter wrote:

> This fits better here.

[Snipped...]
This question was raised before and simply dismissed.

If somebody wrote a procedure in the kernel that exported
some symbols. And that person wanted anybody to use that
symbol, upon what authority does one change "EXPORT_SYMBOL"
to "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?" This will need to eventually be
answered.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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