Re: [RFC PATCH] crc generation fix for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 21:24 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:31 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:15 -0800, Ram Pai wrote:
> > > Currently genksym does not take into account the GPLness of the exported
> > > symbol while generating the crc for the exported symbol. Any symbol
> > > changes from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL would not reflect in the
> > > Module.symvers file.  This patch fixes that problem.
> > 
> > and this is a problem.. why?
> 
> Tools that depend on Module.symvers wont be able to detect the change in
> GPLness of the exported symbols.

and that is relevant.. why?


> Eventually we want to generate a tool that can report API changes across
> kernel releases and put it in some friendly(docbook) format.

but a _GPL change isn't an API change though... either a module is legal
or it isn't. _GPL doesn't matter there...



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