[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: export ppc_tb_freq so that modules can reference it

[Tabi Timur-B04825]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:14 PM, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 20:20 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> I don't see any reason to limit it to GPL drivers.  Not only that, but
>> then we'll have this:
> 
> I do

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

> 
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_proc_freq);
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ppc_tb_freq);
>> 
>> That just looks dumb. 
> 
> 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 respect to  EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  
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