... > Also, if the old world is taken into consideration (which we normally > have the luxury of not having to do so), consider Ruoyao's case where a > commercial partner of Loongson wants to do this with the vendor kernel, > but the symbols are exported GPL -- in this case I doubt the GPL marking > will remain, thus creating inconsistency between upstream and vendor > kernels, and community distros are going to complain loudly about the > need to patch things. It's probably best to avoid all of this upfront. It is pretty easy to load a non-GPL module into a distro-built kernel and call GPL-only functions. (And without doing horrid things with kallsyms.) As soon as you actually need to do one, adding others isn't a problem. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)
