On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:56:03AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>relicensing them.
> >>
> >
> >That's a pretty strong statement...
> >
>
> Well, I'm not making any kind of legal statement. I'm just pointing out
> that from a technical perspective, there's a large visible functional
> change from before if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) vs
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops). Given that the whole point of paravirt_ops
> is to minimize visible changes, this seems counterproductive.
It only affects kernels with the new functionality PARAVIRT=y, not
kernels with the same functionality as today.
The alternative is to keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) and make
the functions using it out of line functions.
> J
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