Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to nonGPL modules

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue May 14 2013 - 14:53:34 EST


On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:44:55PM -0400, Marc Dionne wrote:
> Commit 8425e3d5bdbe ("workqueue: inline trivial wrappers") changed
> schedule_work() and schedule_delayed_work() to inline wrappers,
> but these rely on some symbols that are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, while
> the original functions were EXPORT_SYMBOL. This has the effect of
> changing the licensing requirement for these functions and making
> them unavailable to non GPL modules.
>
> Make them available again by removing the restriction on the
> required symbols.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to wq/for-3.10-fixes.

Thanks.

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tejun
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