linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules

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Message-ID: <20130312202303.GB6060@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:23:03 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Cc:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:38:28PM -0500, Mike Travis wrote:
> This patch adds some important KDB functions to be externally
> usable by loadable KDB modules.

What modules would that be?  Are they in this patch series?

> Note that often drivers bring in KDB modules for debugging, and in the
> past KDB has not been limited to use by GPL only modules.

It always has been, when was the in-kernel code any other way?

> This patch restores KDB usefullness to non-GPL modules.

As Eric says, you can't just do this, sorry.

greg k-h
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