On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:19:30 -0500 Ron Rechenmacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see in the reference I mentioned below (https://patches.linaro.org/28821/), > and in the current mm source, that some tracepoint symbols are already > EXPORTed, > but not _GPL. I do not know the fine points between "GPL-ed" and "non-GPL-ed" > symbol > exporting. Would it make a difference if my patch proposed non-GPL exporting? The only reason there's non GPL exports for tracepoints is because tracepoints were used in header files, and called by static inlines like kfree() and such that were already exported non-gpl. I believe we removed all tracepoints from static inlines and headers because they were causing other problems (you don't want tracepoint code inlined all over the place, it bloats the kernel). I may look into cleaning up the kernel and removing the EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(). -- Steve -- 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/
