On Tuesday 13 June 2006 18:42, Ben Greear wrote: > Chase Venters wrote: > > At least some of us feel like stable module APIs should be explicitly > > discouraged, because we don't want to offer comfort for code that > > refuses to live in the tree (since getting said code into the tree is > > often a goal). > > Some of us write modules for specific features that are not wanted in > the mainline kernel, even though they are pure GPL. Our life is hard > enough with out people setting out to deliberately make things more > difficult!
Fair enough, but if you are doing out of tree, pure GPL modules, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() isn't a bad thing, is it? Don't mistake me for actually having a big opinion specifically about this socket API's usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL()... just raising some points that I think apply to these decisions in general. I don't really see a compelling reason for EXPORT_SYMBOL() over EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on the socket APIs though... I'm trying to imagine what kind of legitimate non-GPL modules might use them. > Ben Thanks, Chase - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
