Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: drop dependency on <asm/machdep.h> in archrandom.h
From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-07-25 23:35:18
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:39:39PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 6:19 PM Yury Norov [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:28:12AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:quoted
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:19 AM Yury Norov [off-list ref] wrote:...quoted
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_power_off);^^^ (Note this and read below) ...quoted
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_get_random_seed_long);It can't be like this. Brief browsing of the callees shows that.Is my understanding correct that you're suggesting to make it GPL? ppc_md is exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL(), and the function is in header, so it's available for non-GPL code now. I don't want to change it.The symbols your function calls are GPL. As far as I understand (not a lawyer!) it logically one may not call GPL and pretend to be non-GPL.
Can you explain what you mean in details?
The function is:
static inline bool __must_check arch_get_random_seed_long(unsigned long *v)
{
if (ppc_md.get_random_seed)
return ppc_md.get_random_seed(v);
return false;
}
ppc_md is non-GPL:
77 /* The main machine-dep calls structure
78 */
79 struct machdep_calls ppc_md;
80 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_md);
And get_random_seed is initialized in in arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/rng.c
with different functions that are static and not exported at all.
I don't understand where arch_get_random_seed_long calls GPL...