Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 18:19:26 EST


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:56:57PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs
> to do the configuration. Unfortunately, all sysfs exports are available
> to GPL modules only because they are exported by EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Heh, a gnu.org email address asking for us to change the GPL marking on
symbols. Ah, the irony...

> Please replace every EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with EXPORT_SYMBOL in fs/sysfs/*.c

Sorry, but the answer is no.

Good luck,

greg k-h
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