On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:40:08PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > 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. I *really really* would hate to do so but only because you insist, I'll look into this... ASDF Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
