On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:23:41AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 05:33:21PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

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I tentatively put this (and the rest of the series) on a pci/resource
branch.  I'm hoping you'll propose some clarification about
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() also serves to ensure only GPL modules can
only run that code. So for instance although we have "Dual BSD/GPL"
tags for modules pure "BSD" tags do not exist for module tags and
cannot run EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() code [0]. Also there is some folks
who do believe tha at run time all kernel modules are GPL [1] [2].
And to be precise even though the FSF may claim a list of licenses
are GPL-compatible we cannot rely on this list alone for our own
goals and if folks want to use our EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s they must
discuss this on lkml [2].

By "propose some clarification," I meant that I hoped you would propose a
patch to Documentation/ that would give maintainers some guidance.

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