On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > Was a decision to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL deliberate and if yes then > > what considerations dictated it, other then the patch author wrote > > it that way, and what drivers in question are supposed to use when > > this change will show up in the mainline? It looks that 2.6.13 > > will do this. > > Please see the archives for the answers to these questions.
I actually tried that before posting. Maybe I attempted to look for wrong things but, beyond conversion examples, I found some postings with a general theme "there is no point to make life easy for binary-only modules" and not much else. I am afraid that this leaves me not much wiser. Also, at least when dealing with 2.6.13-r1, neither Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, nor files in Documentation/driver-model/ directory, mention anything about a switch to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for relevant symbols. The only thing I can find about the later in "feature-removal..." is a note about RCU API. Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
