Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense.
> 
> A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating
> nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and
> disruptive (though we could support both during a transition and
> migrate them over time).

Please don't use that name, it strikes me as much more confusing than
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, even though I agree that _GPL doesn't quite convey
what it means, either.

EXPORT_SYMBOL_RESTRICTED?  EXPORT_SYMBOL_DERIVED?  At least something
which is not internally inconsistent would be good (how is something
which is exported "internal?")

And, as long as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL continues to check that the module
using it has a GPL license, then it really -is- exactly descriptive of
what it's doing and probably shouldn't be changed.  IIMHO.

-Eric
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