Re: [PATCH] [39/40] i386: Export paravirt_ops for non GPL modules too

On Apr 30 2007 13:00, Andi Kleen wrote:
>On Monday 30 April 2007 12:50:09 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:28:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > 
>> > Otherwise non GPL modules cannot even do basic operations
>> > like disabling interrupts anymore, which would be excessive.
>> > 
>> > Longer term should split the single structure up into
>> > internal and external symbols and not export the internal
>> > ones at all.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Ingo was dead-set against this and I kinda agree. 
>
>The problem is that without this non GPL modules cannot even disable
>interrupts anymore. That is imho too radical.

Perhaps we can have a paravirt_ops2 that specifically deals with
interrupt en/disable, and export that instead?


Jan
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