Re: [IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 04:36:41 EST


On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:51:47AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:27, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1803.128.1, 2004/08/25 18:27:33+00:00, dcn@xxxxxxx
> >
> > [IA64] allow OEM written modules to make calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> >
> > Add wrapper functions for SAL_CALL(), SAL_CALL_NOLOCK(), and
> > SAL_CALL_REENTRANT() that allow OEM written modules to make
> > calls to ia64 OEM SAL functions.
> >
>
> are there any such modules? Are they GPL licensed or all proprietary ?

SGI has stated they have propritary modules that need this, that's why it's
got added despite my objections.

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