On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:14 PM, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" =
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On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 20:20 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

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I don't see any reason to limit it to GPL drivers.  Not only that, =

but

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then we'll have this:

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I do

Can you elaborate on that, or are you just going to pull rank on me?

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EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_proc_freq);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ppc_tb_freq);
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That just looks dumb.=20

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Right, so send a patch to fix the first one too :-)

Then why doesn't someone post a patch to change all EXPORT_SYMBOL to =
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?  And why do we consider EXPORT_SYMBOL to be "broken"?

I'm not trying to be a troll, but I see a lot of inconsistency with =
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