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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 10:52:31 EST


On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:50:09 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Ditto - do the work first then merge it.

NAK the patch
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