Arjan van de Ven schrieb:
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:47 -0600, Mark Maule wrote:On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:Export sn_pcidev_info_get.Tony or Andrew please back this out again. The only reason SGI wants this is to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it. And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al). While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants to use it. What am I missing here?so you would have no objection to making this a _GPL export ?
Hi Folks,sn_* symbols are "their" symbols so I can't see any legitimation for anyone else to not let them export their symbols as they want. They are doing a great job on linux to make it run scalable on the biggest machines on earth. Or don't you like the idea of running Linux on those supercomputers?
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