On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:10:44AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Great, thanks. This seems to be in alignment with those who have all along said > they've used EXPORT_SYMBOL() to mean what EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() users now use it > for. Nevertheless -- maintainers should know that some stubborn developers use > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for its technical merit should violators abuse those > symbols. FYI, I think the naming here is really unfortunate. If if was named EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL as just a kernel export for specific uses we'd be much better off in being able to explain what it actually does. Even better would e a system were we have specific export groups, e.g. symbols would be "core" "mm", "vfs", or "legacy_hack_for_drm" and any consumer would specificly declare which symbol they pull in. This would have a couple advantages: - anyone adding an export needs to think hard into which category it falls, and think again if exporting really makes sense - it's reasy to review modules to see if they pull in anything unexpected. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
