Re: [BK] Changing driver core/sysfs/kobject symbol exports to GPL only

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Friday 24 September 2004 10:42 pm, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> What's life without a little controversey once in a while?
> 
> The attached patch and referenced BK tree changes all the symbol exports
> in the driver core, sysfs, and the kobject core to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL [1].

May I ask to keep class_simple and maybe platform_device_register_simple
available to non-GPL modules. These functions offer limited and documented
semantic and while it is impossible to build entire new subsystem around
them it will allow non-GPL stuff still be somewhat integrated - standard
hotplug mostly I think...

-- 
Dmitry
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