On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:56:03AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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relicensing them.
   

That's a pretty strong statement...
 

Well, I'm not making any kind of legal statement.  I'm just pointing out 
that from a technical perspective, there's a large visible functional 
change from before if we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) vs 
EXPORT_SYMBOL(paravirt_ops).  Given that the whole point of paravirt_ops 
is to minimize visible changes, this seems counterproductive.

It only affects kernels with the new functionality PARAVIRT=y, not 
kernels with the same functionality as today.

The alternative is to keep the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops) and make 
the functions using it out of line functions.

   J

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Adrian

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