[PATCH revised 3/4] powerpc: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for symbols required by fs_enet and cpm_uart

Jochen Friedrich jochen at scram.de
Mon Nov 26 22:15:00 EST 2007


Hi Vitaly,

>> Maybe this is a stupid question, but why did you choose
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and not EXPORT_SYMBOL?
>>
> To prevent using those pointers from within non-GPL modules. kind of policy now...

In particular in this case, as these pointers are currently not exported, at all. They
are currently used by a few drivers and will disappear again once these drivers have
been converted to use the propper accessors, which will also prevent access conflicts
to the CPM registers.

Thanks,
Jochen




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