Hi - On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:40:36AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > [...] > > > Are you sure the license_gplok check is necessary here? We should > > > consider encouraging non-gpl module writers to instrument their code, > > > to give users a slightly better chance of debugging problems.
> > [... the authors of clearcase] have the funny habit of > > distributing their kernel modules as ".ko" files instead of > > sending a proper ".o" and later link it against a wrapper. The > > result is, I must say, quite bad [...] the structure is > > corrupted. > Please don't add hacks like that for non-GPL modules. Indeed, offline Matheiu elaborated on his problem, and it turns out that good old modversions would have solved it. > But neither should we export any tracing functionality for them. > They're not the kind of people we want to help at all, Making that sort of political decision is beyond my pay grade. I merely suggested its consideration. > and Frank just shows once again that he should rather stay away from > kernel stuff and keep on writing C++. Now now, if you don't like my C++, wait till you see my Smalltalk-80. Or are you just jealous that my initials subsume yours? - FChE (this space for rent) - 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/
