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

[Patrick Mochel]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> 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...

I didn't touch class_simple. Are there really external modules that use
platform_device_register_simple(), or you speaking hypothetically?

IOW, this is a call to anyone that has external modules (that aren't GPL)
to step up and claim usage and make arguments for their non-GPL
exportability.


	Pat
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