Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 06:50:36 EST


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@xxxxxxx>

Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree.
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