On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:23:41AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 05:33:21PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > I tentatively put this (and the rest of the series) on a pci/resource > > branch. I'm hoping you'll propose some clarification about > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() also serves to ensure only GPL modules can > only run that code. So for instance although we have "Dual BSD/GPL" > tags for modules pure "BSD" tags do not exist for module tags and > cannot run EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() code [0]. Also there is some folks > who do believe tha at run time all kernel modules are GPL [1] [2]. > And to be precise even though the FSF may claim a list of licenses > are GPL-compatible we cannot rely on this list alone for our own > goals and if folks want to use our EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s they must > discuss this on lkml [2]. By "propose some clarification," I meant that I hoped you would propose a patch to Documentation/ that would give maintainers some guidance. > ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
