Re: 2.6.24-rc7-rt2

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 22:51:13 EST


On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:37:37 +0200, =?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur said:
> And because of mcount-add-basic-support-for-gcc-profiler-instrum.patch, closed
> source nvidia-new module cannot be used with this release (mcount is exported
> GPL only), i know this is not supported but i used it with that [2] patch up
> until now without a single problem.

Playing devil's advocate here - the claim is that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is to
indicate that code is getting too chummy with Linux internals.

However, in *this* case, isn't it "code that is too chummy with *GCC* internals",
and thus it isn't our place to say what can and can't be done with code that
is derivative of the GCC compiler? ;)

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